Limits of Internet Privacy

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This essay will discuss the way social networking sites affect the nature and limits of privacy. There are various social networking websites e.g. Facebook, MySpace, Youtube, Twitter, Google Buzz, and many others with various privacy settings and in the past several years billions of people have joined these social networking sites. Social networking sites give their users an easy way to share information about themselves. However, many users are quickly finding that the information they intend to share with their friends can all too easily find its way into the hands of the authorities, strangers, the press, and the public at large. For example, job recruiters are looking to these sites as well as performing more traditional background checks on potential employees. Performing a search using these sites may result in retrieving a substantial amount of personally identifiable information about a person. (epic.org, 2010) As said in above quote, social networking sites (SNS) give their users an easy way to share information about themselves. However, no one knows including social... ... middle of paper ... ...network_burglary_gang/ [Accessed 22/12/2010]. Zahn, A (2006) Facebook used to aid stalkers [Online]. Available from: http://tv.ku.edu/news/2006/05/04/facebook-used-to-aid-stalkers/ [Accessed 22/12/2010]. Cbsnews (2010) Facebook “Friend” suspected in Burglary [Online] .Available from: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/25/earlyshow/main6331796.shtml [Accessed 22/12/2010]. Rosen, J (2010) The Web Means the End of Forgetting [Online]. Available from: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html [Accessed

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