Final Minority Report
In the last week or so, I have had several posts about privacy. There continues to exist this spectrum between thinking that privacy online should be actively pursued, and that of privacy cannot exist in a world with social media and therefore the users should be the ones that watch what they post.
Through the posts, there have been many good points raised by visitors of this blog. This, combined with the readings of my present and previous class has perhaps demonstrated that the answer lies in the middle (at least for the mean time). Most, if not all, views explain how the benefits of web 2.0 and social media cannot be denied. However, there also exist a gap in privacy laws. Even when some laws are present, Reyman (2013) explained that this is an "illusion of control", where information and technical jargon would take an average person 76 days just to digest, if he/she reads all the terms and conditions in his/her privacy settings.
These two TED talks probably best sums up this entire discourse for me. The first, focuses more on the individual's need to curate what he/she posts.
The second video shows the gaps in present legislation, and discusses an alternative way at looking at the issue.
Josh, out
Through the posts, there have been many good points raised by visitors of this blog. This, combined with the readings of my present and previous class has perhaps demonstrated that the answer lies in the middle (at least for the mean time). Most, if not all, views explain how the benefits of web 2.0 and social media cannot be denied. However, there also exist a gap in privacy laws. Even when some laws are present, Reyman (2013) explained that this is an "illusion of control", where information and technical jargon would take an average person 76 days just to digest, if he/she reads all the terms and conditions in his/her privacy settings.
These two TED talks probably best sums up this entire discourse for me. The first, focuses more on the individual's need to curate what he/she posts.
The second video shows the gaps in present legislation, and discusses an alternative way at looking at the issue.
Josh, out
Thank you for sharing Josh! Great stuff!
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff Josh! I was writing a similar post on my blog as well about what property is exactly ours, and the data that we give out all the time via our devices. It truly is an interesting case of what exactly has value even if we don't think it does. Giving out enough data can pretty much tell where we live, what we do, who we are, why we are looking at this, etc. etc. pretty scary stuff right?
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