Teenagers hasten to post their diaries and most private thougts online while adults strive not to disclose any personal information about them. This is the privacy paradox according to Barnes in her article A Privacy Paradox: Social Networking int he United States. she explains that journals they are proud to post behind their parents back, may be trakced down by school officials, admistraiton and potential hirers… Teens seem unmindful of what they are doing says Barnes as ”Locked away on hundreds of servers is every minute detail of our daily lives from our individual buying preferences to personal thoughts …Teens use social networking sites as a form of entertainment, but occasionally online predators use these sites to stalk victims.”
and to make matters worse, government officials collect these data in the name of “security” and markets base their businesses on it….
but what does Privacy really mean?
It is coined in Conceptualizing Privacy as
“freedom of thought, control over one’s body, solitude in one’s
home, control over information about oneself, freedom from surveillance,
protection of one’s reputation, and protection from searches and interrogations.”
What about postethmus privacy?? another related topic on my mind these days..
The terms means the privacy of the dead after they are long dead. Do we have the right to then publish all their material writings and work? To answer that I looked some arguments online.. bottom line my opinion on the subject is as such, though it might help us understand the person perhaps more to read his writing, it leaves no space for the writer to standup for himself as he could while he was alive. As an arabic saying goes the meaning dies with the writer.So is it our right to unleash this meaning?…I think not.
