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The New Commons: Is Privacy Possible?

Disruptions: Seeking Privacy in a Networked Age. The New York Times, Oct 14, 2012.

Privacy Concerns Keep Users Away from Social Sign-In, eMarketer.com, Jan 18, 2013.

Public is Public ... except in Journalism, by Jeff Jarvis, Buzz Machine, Jan 4, 2013.

The Internet is a Surveillance State, by Bruce Schneier, CNN, March 16, 2013.

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Description from YouTube: This talk points out that social networking and privacy have often been depicted as irreconcilable. People holding this view have declared that the success of sites such as Facebook marks the end of online privacy: "people have voted with their feet and shown they didn't care". In this presentation, he examines data collected through a series of pilots designed to better understand people's privacy preferences in the context of mobile social networking, with a particular focus on location sharing. The results strongly suggest that, not only do people care about their privacy, but that mobile social networking applications that have failed to give users adequate privacy settings have miserably failed.
Can Social Networking and Privacy be Reconciled?

Description from YouTube: Lori Andrews, distinguished professor of law at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, addressed the topic of "How Social Networks are Changing Our Lives and Our Culture" at this seminar on Privacy and Social Media.

IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law Lecture - Lori Andrews