Comments on: Going Public About Privacy http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/04/15/going-public-about-privacy/ What's Hot & What's Cooking in Scholarly Publishing - from the Society for Scholarly Publishing Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:01:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David Crotty http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/04/15/going-public-about-privacy/#comment-2911 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:48:38 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=3682#comment-2911 What’s interesting to me is how willing people are to release their privacy, whether knowingly or unknowingly. This article was a bit of an eye-opener for me, when the author watched someone take a picture with their iPhone, found the photo on Flickr via the geotag and timestamp, found the users other photos and from there was able to figure out where they lived and what sorts of things they had in their apartment:
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/17-02/lp_guineapig

There’s a fine line between having “followers” and having stalkers. While I’m fairly open and all over the web in my professional life, I try to keep most of my private life as private as possible (which is probably a sign that I’m too old to “get it”).

I’m expecting to see something of a backlash against the rampant exhibitionism currently seen online when more real-world incidents occur.

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