When you think of social media being used to find out
information about you, you may be thinking that you have nothing to hide, and
your Internet identity is looking pretty good. In fact, you have spent a lot of
time creating an image of yourself that is pretty close to perfect in your
eyes. But do you believe that the data on Facebook alone can be used to guess your
Social Security Number, compromise a job opportunity, and manipulate
advertisement?
Any information can become sensitive information. By using
algorithms, technology, your friends on Facebook, and face recognition, you can
be manipulated both knowingly and unknowingly. Protecting this information is
important to your future, and it is time to take action!
In
this sobering TedTalk, “What Will a Future Without Secrets Look Like,” Even of
you have nothing to hide, Alessandro Acquisti shares the truth about personal information and the results . . .
chilling! |
Alessandro Acquisti
“Alessandro Acquisti, a behavioral economist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, is
something of a pioneer in this emerging field of research. His experiments can
take time. The last one, revealing how Facebook users had tightened their
privacy settings, took seven years. They can also be imaginative: he has been
known to dispatch graduate students to a suburban mall in the name of science.
And they are often unsettling.” — Somini Sengupta, The
New York Times http://www.ted.com/talks/alessandro_acquisti_why_privacy_matters?language=en
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