Digital Media

Objectives

• Discuss Right to Privacy
• Discuss Impact on Privacy due to Digital Media

Right to Privacy?

• No Amendment to Constitution exists stating "Right to Privacy"
• Creation of social media raises questions of privacy
• Large amounts of personal data available to Social Media Platforms
• Examples: Facebook and Twitter

Government Spying

• Federal Government (NSA) utilizes spying program called Prism (Gellman, 2013)
• Prism collects user data from many large internet companies (Gellman, 2013)
• Examples: Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and YouTube (Gellman, 2013)
• Massive invasion of privacy revealed by Edward Snowden (Gellman, 2013)

Third-Party Advertising

• Social Media services collect personal data (Sullivan, 2013)
• Third-Party social media applications collect data without prior knowledge (Sullivan, 2013)
• Third-Party applications sell data to advertising companies (Sullivan, 2013)
• Advertising companies create an "Advertising Profile" based on internet habits (Sullivan, 2013)

Secret Identity Revealed

• FTC sues Toysmart.com for planning to sell personal information in auction (Sullivan, 2013)
• DoubleClick, Inc. planned to combine email list with surfing history database (Sullivan, 2013)
• DoubleClick, Inc. merge would have revealed personal identities of users (Sullivan, 2013)
• More.Com solicited customer information to Third-Party (Sullivan, 2013)
• Direct Violation of More.Com's own privacy statement (Sullivan, 2013)

Reality?

• Survey conducted revealed most companies reserve right to personal information (Sullivan, 2013)
• Companies reserve right to sell information to Third-Parties (Sullivan, 2013)
• Customers must "Opt-Out" of data collection (Sullivan, 2013)
• 30% of surveyed companies said they wont sell information (Sullivan, 2013)

Why it matters

• "Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say." -Edward Snowden

References

• Gellman, B. (2013, October 30). NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say. Retrieved July 26, 2015, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-link...
• Sullivan, B. (2013, November 17). Online privacy fears are real. Retrieved July 26, 2015, from http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3078835/t/online-privacy-fears-are-real/#.VbU36_l...