CS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Star Wars Kid, Lightsaber
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More than half a billion people use facebook to share intimate details of their lives to. In a 2009 survey by the pew research center"s internet and american life project 71% of facebook users aged 18 29 reported changing their privacy settings to limit the amount of information they disclose about themselves. If we grow up gay in a homophobic family we learn to exert as much control over such knowledge as we can. These are all privacy strategies for the most personal spheres: person to firm: we decide whether we wish to answer the checkout clerk at babies-r- Us when she asks for our home phone numbers. The state has cause to record traces of your movements and activities. Associated with the combination of rapid proliferation of images, the asocial nature of much social web behaviour, and the permanence of the digital record.