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Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy? Daniel J. Solove asks in Scientific American.
Key points:
– Social-networking sites allow seemingly trivial gossip to be distributed to a worldwide audience, sometimes making people the butt of rumors shared by millions of users across the Internet.
– Public sharing of private lives has led to a rethinking of our current conceptions of privacy.
– Existing law should be extended to allow some privacy protection for things that people say and do in what would have previously been considered the public domain.
Remember the Star Wars Kid? Tens of millions of people around the world saw his video, and he had to drop out of school and get therapy. (via 3QD)
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