Social networks are the defining cultural movement of our time,
empowering us in constantly evolving ways. We can all now be reporters,
alerting the world to breaking news of a natural disaster we can
participate in crowd-sourced scientific research and we can become
investigators, helping the police solve crimes. Social networks have
even helped to bring down governments. But they have also greatly
accelerated the erosion of our personal privacy rights, and any one of
us could become the victim of shocking violations at any time. If
Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest nation in the
world but while that nation appears to be a comforting small town, in
which we socialize with our selective group of friends, it and the rest
of the Web is actually a lawless frontier of hidden and unpredictable
dangers. The same power of information that can topple governments can
destroy a person’s career or marriage. As leading expert on social
networks and privacy Lori Andrews shows, through groundbreaking in-depth
research and a host of stunning stories of abuses, as we work and chat
and shop and date (and even sometimes have sex) over the Web, we are
opening ourselves up to increasingly intrusive, relentless, and
anonymous surveillance–by employers, schools, lawyers, the police, and
aggressive data aggregator services that compile an astonishing amount
of information about us and sell it to any and all takers. She reveals
the myriad ever more sophisticated techniques being used to track us and
discloses how routinely colleges and employers reject applicants due to
personal information searches robbers use postings about vacations to
target homes for break-ins lawyers readily find information to use
against us in divorce and child custody cases and at one school, the
administrators actually used the cameras on students’ school-provided
laptops to spy on them in their homes.
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