It is clear that with today’s ever advancing technology, the opportunity for people to harness its power and utilize it both positively and negatively in society is an extremely complex topic. As a result, the concern for privacy has arisen as social media sites are put onto the Web. There are various stand points one can take regarding the internet and how it is consuming user identity and leaving it available for potentially anyone with means to capture personal information. Thus, policies are constantly being implemented and modified to address the levels of protection a user has. Of course, with Facebook, Twitter, and other profile drove media sites, a considerable amount of weight lies within the users choice of uploading his/her personal information into their database. After briefing the articles assigned this week, I was not particularly intrigued with the arguments Chunka Mui made in, Facebook’s Privacy Issues are Even Deeper than We Know. Regardless of his ill advised informal expression (using the word and in beginning of a sentence, and the word a lot) he has little to no information when backing up his claims. For example, Mui mentions “…CMU researchers were able to match Facebook users with their pictures on otherwise anonymous Match.com accounts”, well so what? He fails to acknowledge the kinds of harmful implications, if there are any, of being able to locate individuals through identification matching. Later Mui vaguely states that set aside Facebook’s struggle with privacy, it is more within what they have enabled others to do. I would certainly agree with this statement, and because today’s information technology has consumed many of our lives, it becomes difficult to steer away from it, and leaves us incredibly vulnerable. Further examination on Privacy as a Luxury Commodity by Zizi Papacharisii will be documented and posted later this evening.
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