Attitude and behavoir to Privacy
Society
- Privacy Tradeoff information- a balance trick?
Social networking Web sites, such as MySpace, Facebook, and Friendster have become established forums for keeping in contact with old acquaintances and meeting new ones. Users can create their own Web page and post details about themselves: where they went to school, their favorite movie titles, and their relationship status. They can link to friends on the same site, whose photos, names, and perhaps a brief description, will also appear on the Web page. While these Web sites are useful tools for exchanging information, there has been growing concern over breaches in privacy caused by these social networking services. Many users feel that their personal details are being circulated far more widely than they would like. HOwever, it seems to be kind of trade-off to get information.
Enabler:
- Social networking website
- Search Engines
- People lifestyle:
There is no enough time, more and frequent geographic change make keep friendship difficult. Internet enpower democracy. Everyone can use internet to express their ideas.
Inhabitor:
- Terrorists attacks urge people attention to the data and privacy on internet
- Many news about consumer data, email passwords,etc were published.
- More and more people's information was searched and accessed by strangers.
- In September 2006, Facebook's recently introduced News Feed feature spurred additional privacy concerns from users. Over 700,000 users signed an online petition demanding the company discontinue the feature, stating that this compromised their privacy. etc
All above events are calling people's concern to their privacy on internet. They
Paradigms:
People have choice and control to their personal data. People also get enough technology knowledge to do it. People will still use social networking website and keep on put datas on web. Social networking and search engine companies can enjoy the sustainable growth and still can utlize part of the consumer data for advertising usage.
Timing:
It require large co-operation from consumers, social networking companies and legal organizations who are able to build up trust relationship. Besides, for company side, the new business model are still not clear which jeopardize their decision for this issue.
Reference
http://epic.org/privacy/socialnet/