People have increasing concerns when it comes to their online privacy. The rise of Web 2.0 technologies, such as social media (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), blogging sites, photo sharing sites, video sharing sites, and even open webcam projects raise interesting questions. Do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy when it comes to information you’ve posted?
Many believe that if you only share something with your on-line ‘friends’ that it is still private, however, how many friends do you need to have before it becomes incredibly unlikely that there won’t be a leak somewhere? How soon does your ‘reasonable expectation’ of privacy become no privacy at all?
The question of privacy has come down to this: How can one simultaneously have an expectation of privacy and publish information about themselves freely on the internet? It is this dichotomy that causes concern to many net denizens. [Read more…]