Ellen
02-01-2008, 10:25 PM
From the Berkman Buzz (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/);
"Facebook collects information about users and then reserves the right to share all the amassed information with third parties. When signed in to email or blogger, Google is keeping tabs on every search the user conducts. In twenty years, marketers may know a six-year-old’s interests and habits better than he knows them himself.
Our research has shown that while many young people are disinterested about data collection issues, they are also largely unaware of what is being collected, how it is being used, and what the repercussions may be. Some who are more aware, cite the inevitability of compromising their privacy if they are going to engage in the social world, which, for the 12-24 age group, has migrated online..."
Excerpted from Corinna Di Gennaro and Miriam Simun's blogpost, "Frontline’s 'Growing Up Online': What about the digital dossier?
<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/01/28/frontlines-growing-up-online-what-about-the-digital-dossier/> (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/01/28/frontlines-growing-up-online-what-about-the-digital-dossier/)
"Facebook collects information about users and then reserves the right to share all the amassed information with third parties. When signed in to email or blogger, Google is keeping tabs on every search the user conducts. In twenty years, marketers may know a six-year-old’s interests and habits better than he knows them himself.
Our research has shown that while many young people are disinterested about data collection issues, they are also largely unaware of what is being collected, how it is being used, and what the repercussions may be. Some who are more aware, cite the inevitability of compromising their privacy if they are going to engage in the social world, which, for the 12-24 age group, has migrated online..."
Excerpted from Corinna Di Gennaro and Miriam Simun's blogpost, "Frontline’s 'Growing Up Online': What about the digital dossier?
<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/01/28/frontlines-growing-up-online-what-about-the-digital-dossier/> (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/01/28/frontlines-growing-up-online-what-about-the-digital-dossier/)