Open Door Privacy
In a previous post on this blog titled Personal Privacy in the Social Networking Age , I wrote: The key is less about whether or not you are being watched but what you let them see. Do you change in front of an open window, one with sheers, closed drapes, or in another room completely away from the window? Ultimately, you determine your exposure. A recent article about a Facebook experiment by the University of British Columbia Vancouver shed even more light on the lack of attention many people pay towards protecting their privacy: Researchers Flood Facebook With Bots, Collect 250GB Of User Data Based upon UBCV's experiment, it would seem many people live by an open door policy letting anyone in who "asks." No wonder identity theft and stalking is so easy in the Social Networking Age. ...