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NATS 1700 SC

March 11, 2010

Social Networking Sites

- A virtual community is a group of people who may or may not meet one another face to face...

(Chantelles notes contd)

- Why are you on Facebook?- Second Life

(http://static.secondlife.com/media/mp4/20060824-sl_getone.mp4)

-memorial

- First life initiates 2nd life- VLES

Questions

Is Computer Mediated Communication preferable to other forms of communication?

Could online social networking replace off-time social networking?

~ Variety of means to communicate

~ multi-tasking going towards it

~ So afraid of multi-tasking in the pastime

We are at a watershed point. One way of processing information is yielding to another. Bound up with

each is a huge array of aptitudes, assumptions, and understandings about the world.

Svens Birkerts The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of reading in an Electronic Age

What we can do 25:33 to 36:50

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Presentation

PRIVACY LOST OT PRIVACY FOUND?

Redefining Privacy on Online Social Networks

Janet Lo

Counsel, Public Interest Advocacy Centre

Privacy was not a viable proposition in the past

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre

PIAC pertains to people

Candidates racy Facebook photos showed lack of judgment: BC NDP Leader CBC News (04/20/09)

Depressed woman loses benefits over Facebook

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Too much info on Social Media AIDS ID Thieves SF Gate (02/25/10)

Banks mining Social Media Sites for Personal Information ABC7news (02/17/10)

Foreign Policy: Irans...Facebook updates may share location soon PC World (March 9, 2010)

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Needs to Address the Hacking Incidents Business Insider (02/08/10)

Police criticize Facebook safety record after Ashleigh Washington Post (02/06/08)

Todays lecture

- Defining Privacy- Challenges : Technology + Privacy- Canadian Privacy Law- Virtual Worlds- Social Networking Profiles

Define Privacy

- Privacy is the right to be left alone- Privacy as a way to minimize intrusions

o Charter of Rights + freedom -s.8. right to be secure against reasonable search or seizure- Privacy is dignity, respect, trust, preservation of individual privacy

Types of Privacy

- Territorial- Bodily- Informational privacy

Nations of empowerment, control, choice + self-determination are the essence of information privacy.

Privacy is like freedom: we do not recognize its importance until it is taken away.David FlahertyFormer BC Information & Privacy Commissioner

Once taken away, it may be virtually impossible to get back

Challenges: Technology & Privacy

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- What does privacy mean in an age of technology?- 1890 - Warren & Brandeis paper:

- Proliferation of technology is invading privacy, in particular through the press and photographs

- Web - cookies tracking

Surveillance by dataveillance?

Balance between businesses and consumers

Security/accountability - whos going to watch over the corporations?

Canadian Privacy Law: PIPEDA

Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act- passed in 2001 in force in 2004

Applies to every organization that collects, uses, or discloses personal information in the course of commercialactivities

Defines personal information as information about an identifiable

NameAgeID numbersIncomeGenderEvaluationsSocial statusEthnic originBlood typeCredit recordsMedical recordsIntentionsOpinionsDisputes between merchants and consumers

Internet protocol information

10 Principles or Fair Info Practices

1. Accountability - requires all organizations to have privacy policies2. Identifying Purposes (notice) - why and what they use it for?3. Consent - consumer has to consent before organization uses or collects personal information/question ofknowledge (what personal info used for)4. Limiting collection - organization only supposed to collect info only used for their purpose5. Limiting Use, Disclosure, Retention - directly or indirectly of information collectedDisclosure - sharing with other organizationsRetention - limited time possessing info6. Accuracy7. Safeguards8. Openness - need to have privacy policies + documentation, understandable by consumer9. Individual Access - person involved with organization can access their own info10. Challenging Compliance - mechanism set up if any disagreements with PIPEDA

Office of the privacy Commissioner of CanadaMonitor compliance with PIPEDAOmbudsman roleInvestigate individual complaints against organizationsResolve complaintsConsultations with the publicPublic education on privacy issues

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Second Life

Virtual Worlds & Second LifeMMPORG: massively multiplayer online role-playing game2008: consumer spending in MMPORGs grew to $1.4BOver 14 million residents in Second Life

$20 million in-world monetary transactions every month...

Social Networking by the #sFacebook: 400 million users (Feb 2010)MySpace: 57 million usersLinkedIn: 60 million usersTagged, Hi5, My Yearbook, Bebo: 3.6 million users per monthCanadians spend avg 17 hours online each week70% of Canadians are social networking sites...

How much is Facebook worth?Established in Feb 2004

Oct 2007: Microsoft purchased 1.6 % stake in Facebook for $240M, deal valued Facebook at $15B

CIPPIC - Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic

Default Privacy SettingsFacebook privacy settings70%-80% never change privacy settings

2009 Default Privacy Settings: The TransitionFacebook change in Privacy Settings

www.joyoftech.com

Third Party ApplicationsQuizzes/games

Getting information through friendsInfo passed onto other businesses regardless of privacy settings

About NexopiaFounded in 2003Based in Edmonton, ABCanadas largest social networking websiteOver 1.4 million registered usersEstimated 70% of teens and young adult in western Canada

Profile Information Visible to All (including Internet)Public User Search Functions

Privacy Lost or Privacy Found?

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