Is Privacy Dead?
So your daughter in a bikini on Facebook has you furious, and worried she'll never get a job after college? Relax, say experts. This is not the privacy issue to worry about. Many privacy discussions follow a similar pattern, and involve the same kinds of arguments, according to newswise.com. "It’s commonplace to hear that privacy is dead, that people — especially kids — don’t care about privacy, that people with nothing to hide have nothing to fear, and that privacy is bad for business," the Web site reports. “These claims are common, but they’re myths,” said Neil M. Richards, JD, privacy law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, at newswise.com. “These privacy myths are not only false, they get in the way of the kind of important conversations we need to have about personal information in a digital age. If we continue to believe privacy myths, if we think about privacy as outdated or impossible, our digital revolution may have no rule...