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You are here: Home / Articles / How Privacy Vanishes Online

March 20, 2010 by Stan Stahl Ph.D.

How Privacy Vanishes Online

NewYorkTimes: If a stranger came up to you on the street, would you give him your name, Social Security number and e-mail address?… Probably not. … Yet people often dole out all kinds of personal information on the Internet that allows such identifying data to be deduced. Services like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr are oceans of personal minutiae — birthday greetings sent and received, school and work gossip, photos of family vacations, and movies watched. … Computer scientists and policy experts say that such seemingly innocuous bits of self-revelation can increasingly be collected and reassembled by computers to help create a picture of a person’s identity, sometimes down to the Social Security number.

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