Showing posts with label surveillance. Show all posts
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Caught in the Net or There By Choice?

Week 7: We started Chapter 2, "Does Personal Privacy Have Limits?" The two readings look at the issue of online privacy, but from different points of view. David Plotz makes the point that we only care about privacy when it's our *own* privacy at stake. Jack Shafer, meanwhile, feels like when we are online, our privacy is being invaded to such a degree that it's like "Big Brother" run amok. He even goes so far to say, "you're paying with your privacy." Is the Internet (social media, gaming, etc) worth the price of your privacy? What do you think?