The Scary detail about Facebook with your details :

   Everything Google and Facebook is dealing  with data .We often use these internet services just like having coffee with our friends .
    Europeans can request Facebook to Return all the information about them, sometimes 1,600 pages worth. But Americans have no such right. And it looks like that’s not going to change

   You’ve mentioned that the online information Facebook has about us is Amazing. Do we know  how much Facebook knows about us ?

   

But Americans do not have a right to know what Facebook has on us?

     Facebook will soon have the most private information on a billion people. If the government tried to get that information, like political beliefs, sexual orientation, emotional status, it would take money, lawyers, and maybe even guns. But we just turn it all over by posting to Facebook or by doing Google searches.

     

How much money is Facebook making with our info ?

      Facebook people make 85 percent of their income i.e $3.7 billion annually with people’s private information with ads to people based on their individual likes, dislikes, and post. 

     Google makes about 10 times that much money by collecting information about other people through s Gmails and Google searches with their profile .

The upshot of monitoring everyone’s personal data leads to some stunning outcomes ?

      Yea. 

      In 2010 Google admitted that while young people revealed on a Google chat. 

      They were thinking of  suicide with some chemical, ads would pop up with  that chemical .

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Has the law just not caught up with the speed of the technology?

       There have been various technologies that invaded privacy, like the portable camera, forensic technology, testing technologies, and in every case even though the law initially allowed invasions in privacy, eventually the courts stepped in to protect privacy. But in the case of aggregating data on individuals the courts have thrown up their hands and said things like, “Oh e-mail is like a postcard.” Courts seem to misunderstand how the Internet works. 

How does data from our online behavior gets translated into targeted ads? Presumably some may argue this is a good thing, to get ads that actually relate to our lives.

       Sure, some might be beneficial. If you like certain band you might get an ad about the band’s schedule. Or you might get money off at your favorite clothing store.

      But there’s also a dark side.

 For example:: if I reveal over Gmail that I’m about to get a divorce I might be denied a good credit card because that company claims that people who are getting divorced tend not to pay off their credit cards.

This idea of aggregate data sounds pretty dangerous?

      If I’m searching for an illness for a friend or relative, it’s assumed to be information about me.

      Then if I later go to a life insurance Web site I may be denied life insurance because it is assumed that I’m sick. Considering a law that says you can’t use social network information about job applicants.

How are they going to monitor such laws?

        It’s difficult to monitor any employment law such as discrimination against gender.

        And think about how many federal laws you’re going to evade as an employer by using social network information. 

   For example, : if you look on her Facebook page and she says, “Hey we just made an appointment with the fertility doctor” or “Got married can’t wait to start a family,” you get that information.

    I think that it’s shocking to most people that now seventy-five percent of employers require their human resources officers to look at the online presence of job applicants.

And most of us are posting and searching with a false perception that nothing is being documented, right?

    Part of the legal analysis of whether privacy is protected is whether people have an expectation of privacy. Social networks give us an expectation of privacy. You have to “friend” people. You share your most intimate details. You hate your boss, you hate your spouse, you talk about your sex life, your sexual orientation, your political beliefs. It’s all the stuff we routinely protect in other settings. I do think there’s a good case to be made that because of its structure Facebook is a private place, not a public place.

    If I had twenty-five or a hundred people over at a party at my home the police couldn’t get in without a warrant, . I would like to see a social network be considered our online home and protect it as much as our regular homes.

Justice Alito suggested that by using social networks we’re pulling the rug out from under our own rights because we’re creating the impression that people don’t expect privacy.J

So everyone should start paying more attention.

    Yes, pay more attention to what’s on your Google Dashboard. And check out companies like Acxiom, where you can go on the Web site and put in three pieces of information.

What else can we do?

    I think we need to push for increased rights to privacy, but I also think that searching clearing your searches are important.

    And then there are also concerns about people cyber-casing people who post their new engagement ring and if the photo is taken at their house, it’s easy to figure out where they are. 

   There were 50 robberies by a New Hampshire gang that just kept track of who was on vacation according to their Facebook status updates.

So we have to be a lot more vigilant.

    I just took a look recently at a patent that allows me to hold up my smart phone to a stranger on the street, and it will tell me through facial recognition if that person has a blog, a profile on a dating site, their status, etc. 

   It’s important to know that your digital self is becoming more important than your offline self. Increasingly technologies are being designed with privacy invasion in mind.

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