Annotated Bibliography: Online Privacy

A well-known privacy feature allowing only friends to see one’s profile was not in force for the first three years of Facebook’s existence (Debatin 2009:3). This allowed information to be seen in

The privacy of human being has drastically changed with the advent of internet. On a scale of 1 to 10, the privacy of an internet user is a -1 or may be less. Social Networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace etc are mainly responsible for this privacy leakage. This short paper is dedicated to review the change of privacy policy by Facebook on December 2009 and its impact on public privacy and security.

It is shown, that one of the most prominent sources that prove a danger toward privacy, is through social media, specifically Facebook. This site alone

However, this new Facebook’s feature can be backfired because Facebook invades users’ privacy. Many users felt like their privacy was completely infiltrated, just about everything users updated or changed was instantly blasted out to hundreds of friends. News Feed has kept all the users’ information “loud”, and allowed people to see pictures and posts, which could give out information that users might not want their friends to know. Users claim that News Feed features leave the door open for people to 'creep'. “Facebook has always tried to push the envelope” (p.545) and “Everyone is freaking out” (p.544). Using people’s first reaction to the Facebook’s “News Feed” feature, Thompson later explains the privacy problem that this new feature may have caused. Thompson tries to inform the readers both side of the benefits and disadvantages using Facebook. The author creates a great connection with the readers by doing so, makes the readers feel that he’s on the same with them, that he understands the whole circumstances.

Furthermore, the tendency that it will be fine even if you do not keep privacy is getting stronger year by year. One of the reasons is because technology is developing rapidly in the world. This evidence is that a lot of people bring with them their smart phones and computers to the evidence of this. Stefano Taddei said, “The results suggest practical implications for online social network providers, most of all with regard to privacy policies in online environments” (2013). In the future, the providers will develop and affect us positive and negative through using technology.

In Daniel Joyce’s writing, Joyce goes into detail about online privacy and asks questions that pertain to the concerns of people who care about online privacy. Issues range from can violating online privacy is a human rights violation to should we even have online rights.

effect on daily life. And while these advances have instituted various sub-cultures and standards on

In “Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure” danah boyd reveals the faults of Facebook and how it affects the actions of its users. boyd observes that when users have access to a privacy feature they feel freer to post and comment as they please. When we are in pubic we acclimate to our surroundings and then choose how to we talk and what we share. boyd points out that normally each users actions were not overly obvious until an update to its system that caused the each user to get notifications each time they logged in based on their friends actions. This generated a new problem where the users had to really question and think about what they posted and shared on Facebook knowing that everyone could interpret their actions differently.

Consumer online privacy is the most criticized subsection of Internet Privacy. Since technology has advanced, we don’t just buy goods on the internet, we pay our bills such as; Cell phone, TV and Internet. It is the most criticized

Facebook is a well know social networking site that has taken all over the world with over 500 million people using the site. Social networking sites such as Facebook share information about the user over the Internet, where it can be freely accessed by anyone. This is where issues of privacy to the individual arise. As of July 2010 Facebook has more than 500 million active users, Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. As of December last year, Facebook called its 500 million users to review their privacy settings at the launch of its new user control tools which allow the user to control their information easily depending on

Since the rise of technology in the 21st century , and technology has participated significantly in most aspects of our lives . Technology helped make our lives much easier it managed to connect the whole world together. This connection is what lead to the rise and development we live in today. At first the communication portals were really limited to only landlines so people had to depend mainly on face to face communication ,until the release of the blackberry messenger in 2010 since then communication had become mainly through instant messaging or as well known as online chatting.

With the appearance and development of the World Wide Web and other electronic strategies for mass interchanges, buyer protection has turned into an outstanding issue. Individual data, when abused or deficiently secured, can bring about wholesale fraud, budgetary extortion, and different problems that altogether cost individuals, organizations, and governments a significant number of dollars every year. What 's more, Internet violations and common question devour court assets, confound legislators, and police offices, and produce untold individual exacerbation. (http://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/definition/consumer-privacy)

Privacy is something we don’t really think about. Privacy is the last thing that comes up in our minds. The Internet is easily accessed by many people and can be hacked to find out important private information about anyone. People all over the world access the Internet, and when private information is posted online one person is going to be able to view that information no matter the privacy setting a person may use. The first article that I will use is “Who Is This Man, and Why Is He Screaming?” by Rachel Kadish. This article is about the author writing an article about her cousin Noam Galai. Galai took a photo of him self and posted it on Flickr. Months later he realized that his image was being used all around the world. The second

Technology has revolutionized the way of communication between people and it is one of the outstanding benefit due to which organizations incorporate technology in their routine functions. Technology enables fast communication between employees of every level and it let the employees aware about the guidelines of an organization. For maintaining the guidelines of an organization, it is essential that the employees should be aware about the rules and regulations. Besides this, technology also assists the top level management in communicating with the low and middle level management which in turn assist in delivering the day to day missions and goals of an organization.

The growth of the internet enters into marketing world (Kımıloğlu, 2004). The internet is used as another marketing tool in several purposes; a cost-effective advertising channel (Eri, Islam and Daud, 2011), a resource for customers’ personal data obtaining (Pope and Lowen, 2009), and a market place (Lwin, Wirtz and Williams, 2007). Apart from those rising benefits, there are also problems and ethical issues growing aside. Privacy seems to be the biggest issue that marketers have to deal with the growth marketing use of the internet (Pitta, Franzak and Laric, 2003; Miyazaki, 2008). Many researches found that privacy could have effects on trust, loyalty, and attitude on customers toward companies doing business on the