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hey so im gonna post some interesting findings from a peer-reviewed article i found http://journals2.scholarsportal.info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/show_html.xqy?uri=/07365853/v28i0002/66_tmuoayitaon.xml&school=toronto#body-s0035
 * 1) 3% of wired American teens now use social networking websites, a significant increase from previous surveys. Just over half of online teens (55%) used social-networking sites in November 2006 and 65% did so in February 2008.
 * 2) •As the teen social networking population has increased, the popularity of some sites’ features has shifted. Compared with social-networking sites (SNS) activity in February 2008, a smaller proportion of teens in mid-2009 were sending daily messages to friends via social-networking sites (SNS), or sending bulletins, group messages or private messages on the sites.
 * 3) •47% of online adults use SNS, up from 37% in November 2008.
 * 4) •Young adults act much like teens in their tendency to use these sites. Fully 72% of online 18–29year olds use social networking websites, nearly identical to the rate among teens, and significantly higher than the 39% of internet users ages 30 and up who use these sites.
 * 5) •Adults are increasingly fragmenting their social networking experience as a majority of those who use social-networking sites – 52% – say they have two or more different profiles. That is up from 42% who had multiple profiles in May 2008.
 * 6) •Facebook is currently the most commonly-used online social network among adults. Among adult profile owners 73% have a profile on Facebook, 48% have a profile on MySpace and 14% have a LinkedIn profile.
 * 7) •The specific sites on which young adults maintain their profiles are different from those used by older adults: Young profile owners are much more likely to maintain a profile on MySpace (66% of young profile owners do so, compared with just 36% of those thirty and older) but less likely to have a profile on the professionally-oriented LinkedIn (7% vs. 19%). In contrast, adult profile owners under thirty and those thirty and older are equally likely to maintain a profile on Facebook (71% of young profile owners do so, compared with 75% of older profile owners).

- the following might not be applicable but i thought it was interesting none the less http://www.sciencedirect.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V0G-51J9DS4-1&_user=994540&_coverDate=05%2F31%2F2011&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050024&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=994540&md5=fef5d1a09800967b67e14ee1bfcda19e&searchtype=a#s0035

2.5. Defamation and invasion of privacy
 The Internet can greatly amplify opportunities for defamation and invasion of privacy for individuals and organizations. There are several reasons for this. First is the global reach and speed of information dissemination. Second is the Internet-based business models. Many major Internet-based companies collect data from people, and use the data to target online ads. Internet-based companies include e-commerce vendors, search engines, portals, social Web sites, etc. [|[13]] and [|[14]] Claire Miller, Jenna Wortham, Technology aside, most people still decline to be located, The New York Times, August 29, 2010. [|[14]]. The data include not only the standard demographic and lifestyle data, but also even Web surfing click patterns. Third, the collected data is subject to theft by the hackers and unscrupulous insiders.  Many who join social networking Web sites seem willing to share all kinds of minutiae about their daily lives. However, many do not want people who are not their online friends to see their personal profiles and posts. Further, many people use social networking Web sites to lure children for sex. Major social networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, have been working to provide better privacy controls on the personal profiles of their members [|[15]].  Google includes the Street View feature in the Google Maps service. Street View shows the images of streets, along with the houses, buildings, cars, and people on the streets. Some of the minor side benefits include the apprehension of two muggers in the Netherlands, and the locating of a missing 9-year-old girl in the state of Massachusetts (the United States). However, Street View has stirred privacy concerns worldwide [|[16]]. In some countries, such as the United States and China, naked people or people in compromising situations were shown. In some countries, including South Korea, the Street View cars ended up collecting data from the wireless networks. Switzerland's federal data protection and information commissioner banned Street View, on the grounds that it fails to sufficiently blur people's faces and automobile license plates. Greece has refused to allow Google to collect Street View images until stronger privacy safeguards can be put in place. Some residents of the Buckinghamshire village of Broughton, United Kingdom, blocked a Google Street View driver from entering the village to collect images. Google also had to reshoot Street View images in 12 cities in Japan, so that images over the fences of the houses would not be included.  Four Google Italy executives have been indicted in Italy on criminal charges of defamation and privacy violation [|[17]]. As executives they were held responsible for a 3-min video posted to Google's Italy site which showed four youths in Turin bullying a boy with Down syndrome.

i had a few articles already save but cant seem to find them ill do it in the morning. sorry for the delay by the by...rogers is being a pain. - ROX

Hey I'm gonna post up some stuff tomorrow, then we can pick a reading tomorrow night/wednesday before class to send to everyone?

Check this out as a possible class reading: That sounds perfect! :) - Cheryl

Sources I found... So far I think the best one for our class to read is "On the Leakage of PII via OSNs".. but depends what you guys get too. Any thoughts on how we should break up the work so far?

Canada. Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. // IPC //. By Ann Cavoukian. Mar. 2009. Web. 14 Mar. 2011. . This article addresses what online risks young people are aware of and what risks they are oblivious to. This article concentrates mainly of the youth in Ontario and discusses what is being done to educate students about the risks they are subject to when participating in social networks and other sties. Hane, Paula. "Privacy Concerns for the Web and Beyond." // Information Today // 28.2 (2011): 8. Web. 14 Mar. 2011. . This article discusses how privacy online must be a balance between consumer protection and commercial rights. The article makes recommendations for protecting consumer privacy online and specifically talks about the information that Internet companies like social networks collect about their users and what exactly they do with that information. Also brings up an interesting point about how it is not only web pages and social networking sites but also how privacy can be compromised on smartphones via their apps, and how some apps can track and store information without the users consent. Krishnamurthy, Balachander, and Craig Wills. "On the Leakage of Personally Identifiable Information Via Online Social Networks." // ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review // 40.1 (2010): 112-17. Web. 14 Mar. 2011. . This source talks about how third parties track user information through social networks and how they can link that usage to personally identifiable information like user name, e-mail etc. as well as their usage on other sites. This paper talks about how these third parties accomplish the tracking, what information is actually available to track, how the "leakage" from social networks occurs and how to protect yourself from it. The paper also touches on how personally identifiable information is leaked from other sites besides social networks like e-commerce, travel, newspaper sites etc. Levin, Avner, and Patricia S. Abril. "Two Notions of Privacy Online." // Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law // 11.1 (2008-2009): 1001-052. Web. 14 Mar. 2011. . This article discusses what level of privacy users of online social networks expect. Also talks about what is more important to the users, control over their private information or whether the private information affects their dignity. Another important aspect of this paper is how it talks about the specific risks associated with social networks such as cyber-stalking, cyber-bullying, reputational risks and identity theft, and why users of the social networks are ignoring these risks.  

 Proposed thesis:

There is a growing trend in the lack of overall interest in personal information privacy. In the long run, contributory negligence may have a negative effect on society.

3. privacy control - Jamie Leading the trend in not caring about one's personal privacy is the contributory negligence of the social network's respect for the privacy in the first place. They aren't setting a good example.

The controls in place as seen here: are defaulted to and encourage little privacy. Changing the settings also makes you seem distant in the network and is seen in a negative light by your friends.

Applications also default to low levels of personal privacy. For example, although against Facebook's rules, there are apps out there to track who views your profile and who deletes you as a friend. Because of the overall attitude towards privacy, these apps continue to thrive.

Search Privacy - social networks use powerful seo to promote their user profiles and information to the top of search engine results such as google. Google's powerful search engine is now an accessory to social network information carelessness as anyone can be exposed further to the public.{ screen shot of google search result with someones name}

People search in general is definatley not an expectation when you sign up for any of these social networks, however; the default has been to promote excessive seo of your information.

-profile privacy -application privacy -search privacy *post facts up* (screen shots)

6. privacy levels - Jamie Over the last several years, our expectation of privacy has decreased from a high level of privacy where if you wanted your information private, all you had to do was go "unlisted" with your phone company. This "hard privacy" left you with all the control.

Today, we have "soft privacy". Soft privacy gives us the element of control over our information, however because of technology we really have little control. We can change things in the short term, but not understand the long term. Massive server farms allows information to be stored indefinitely. Because there is no "Internet Police", nobody is actually liable to even respect their privacy policy. Even with all the ridiculous terminology we saw last week in Facebook's ToS, the truth could even be worse.

" Results of the survey show that users put sensitive information in their profile such as address (33%), social status (93.8%), family situation (23%) or personal photos (65%)"

Social Status being relationship status, it's a prime example of how something that we used to keep private has now travelled to the public realm.

In the long term, if these trends continue, we will have "no privacy". We will not own or have the rights to our personal information. Rather, the public will have the right to our information. Technology is only getting more powerful and one day when machines can aggregate all the data that's being collected today, privacy of our personal information could be a privledge of the past.

-no privacy -soft privacy -hard privacy