This document discusses issues around privacy in the digital age. It notes that over 1.1 billion people are on Facebook and 500 million on Twitter, sharing personal information. However, companies manipulate vulnerabilities to entice oversharing of private details. Also, technologies like Google Glass raise new concerns as they could record people without consent. The document argues that people, especially youth, need education on digital privacy rights to protect their information online as boundaries between private and public information become blurred in the digital world.

1. A New Era of Privacy
Jonathan Chu
Image via
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Human_evolution.svg

2. Today, over
1.1 billion
and 500
million users
are on
Facebook
and Twitter
respectively.
Flickr: CrschmidtSource: Digital Marketing Ramblings

3. However, a social
network is “nothing
until you give it
information. Until you
willingly populate it, it
is nothing.”
Flickr: David Barrie
Source: Karen Blumberg, Forbes, How to
teach Kids Digital Literacy

4. Online, teens admit they reveal “stories
they wouldn’t tell to anyone.”
Flickr: Kevin Shorter
Source: Jones, Huffington Post, Teaching
our Kids not to Treat the Internet as a
Public Diary

5. “I like the idea of my voice being heard
somewhere where people care.”
Anonymous teen
Flickr Charm2010
Source: Jones, Huffington Post, Teaching
our Kids not to Treat the Internet as a
Public Diary

6. Unfortunately, companies continue to manipulate the
vulnerabilities of adolescence and entice them to
disclose “far too personal” information on the web.
Flickr jaynemoo
Source: Jones, Huffington Post, Teaching
our Kids not to Treat the Internet as a
Public Diary

7. Flickr: cliff1066â„¢
With Formspring, some
were angry, saying that the
questions and answers
were private
Source: Hill, Forbes, How to Teach Kids
Digital Literacy

8. Nevertheless, t
hese rich
profiles are
what we, as
marketers, cra
ve.
Flickr: Creole Sha
Source: Jones, Huffington Post, Teaching
our Kids not to Treat the Internet as a
Public Diary

9. We want to know more about you
so we can connect with you and
sell you stuff.
Flickr: lyzadanger
Source: Jones, Huffington Post, Teaching
our Kids not to Treat the Internet as a
Public Diary

10. Flickr: Yutaka Tsutano
Despite this, many U.S. teens say they are addicted to social media
and texting and often want to unplug. But they feel positive overall
about how social media sites such as Facebook and text messaging
have helped them connect with friends and family
Source: Kang, Washington Post, Many
Teens Tell Surveys that They’re Addicted
to Social Media, Texting

11. “It’s integrated into
everyday event
planning, networking, an
d decision making.”
Flickr: The U.S. National Archives
Source: Mills, The Star, “Facebook
Fatigue” and the Aging Social Network

12. Flickr: isafmedia
The invention of Google Glass
opens an entirely new front in
the digital war against privacy.
Source: Keen, CNN, Why Life Through
Google Glass Should be for Our Eyes
Only

13. For Google, “privacy”
means “what you’ve
agreed to”.
Flickr: National Library of Australia Commons
Source: Arthur, Guardian News, Google
Glass: Is it a Threat to our Privacy?

14. Flickr: FreedomHouse
It is the sort of radical
transformation that may actually
end up completely destroying our
individual privacy in the digital
21st century.
Source: Keen, CNN, Why Life Through
Google Glass Should be for Our Eyes
Only

15. Yet we already live in a world where the boundaries of what’s private and
what’s public are melting.
Yet we already live in a
world where the boundaries
of what's private and what's
public are melting.
Flickr: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives
Source: Arthur, Guardian News, Google
Glass: Is it a Threat to our Privacy?

16. Flickr Arenamontanus
When we put on these surveillance
devices, we all become spies, or
scrooglers, of everything and everyone
around us.
Source: Keen, CNN, Why Life Through
Google Glass Should be for Our Eyes
Only

17. Most of us won’t even know if
we are being filmed when gazed
at by a bespectacled stranger
Flickr decade_null
Source: Keen, CNN, Why Life Through
Google Glass Should be for Our Eyes
Only

18. Flickr: Mrschureads
This next generation needs to know their
privacy rights. They need to fight for
them...much more than we are doing today.
Source: Jones, Huffington Post, Teaching
our Kids not to Treat the Internet as a
Public Diary

19. Image via Notfromutrecht
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_philosopher_busts.jpg
“We need to ask the question, why do you need to know this?”
Source: Jones, Huffington Post, Teaching
our Kids not to Treat the Internet as a
Public Diary

20. Flickr: Patrick Hoesly

21. All images are,
- Licensed under Creative Commons and
sourced from Flickr
- Sourced from Wikimedia Commons

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