NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Insurance Number, Social Network, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
10 Jan 2017
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The idea was to see how many of those strangers will accept his friend. Aqsa kidwai request without knowing who he was. 80,000 people accepted a friend request from a virtual stranger. facebook makes its money by the visible part of the site and invisible. The chunk ( seven eighths) comes from the invisible, they collect your data, sort it and sell it. Data mining. when you take the loads of data people generate and you use it in ways of marketing and advertising. So he talks about it being a social norm, so people have no and should not have this expectation of privacy. His company benefits by telling people don"t expect people to have any privacy. Practical ways to protect privacy on sns: privacy rights clearinghouse (2011) lists many ways to protect privacy on sns like. Nothing online is temporary as there is a real chance this information will follow you indefinitely.
