Social Media and PrivacySarah Mitchell, Global Copywriting
19-20 April 2011
http://www.globalcopywriting.com
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What is Social Media? What is Privacy? Changes in social norms How data is collected about you What you can do to maintain your privacy
Goal for Tonight
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Big Brother meet Mark Zuckerberg
Written in 1949 - pervasive government surveillance
Launched in 2004 - Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.
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Online tools designed to connect people with common interests including:
• LinkedIn• Facebook• Twitter• Blogs• YouTube• FourSquare• Flickr
What is Social Media?
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Australians Online 2009
74.3 % use the Internet
24.4% subscribe to Broadband service
28.7% subscribe to Internet service
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LinkedIn: 2 million users Twitter: 2.5 million users Facebook: 9.5 million users FourSquare: 60,000 in Sydney
Recent Social Media Statistics for Australia
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Paradigm Shift in Social Norms
We Assume:
Conversations are private and only made public when we take action
But Online:
Conversations are public by default and you have to work to make them private
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“Privacy isn’t about controlling functional access to content as much as knowing what to share when and how it will flow.”
– Danah Boyd, 32nd International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners
What is Privacy?
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The Pull of the Social Network
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1. Most social networks have no way to qualify friendships. If they do, they’re ineffective or rarely used.
2. We’re much more relaxed about strangers in an online environment than we are in person.
3. Social networks provide a game-like atmosphere where collecting friends and building big followings is desirable.
The Comfort of Strangers
Alexander Korth, http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/on_privacy_in_social_networks_what_drives_users.php
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• Social Media is designed to encourage people to abandon privacy. We’re MORE reserved in person.
• We connect with people we don’t know and we do it often
• It’s immediate; everyone has devices and networks
Be Aware
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Your Information is NetworkedSocial Media is considered part of the public domain
Over 60% of recruiters used LinkedIn and Facebook to vet candidates
Journalists scour Facebook whenever they need a photo
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It’s not Big Brother you should be worrying about -
It’s your family, friends, and colleagues
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You’re being exposed in new ways
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In many different forums
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There is no privacy!“It’s highly likely that if you have had a public profile or website that has publicly accessible data, it’s been indexed and identified by someone.” tribalytic.com
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What on earth is WOEID?
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Where on Earth ID (WOEID) describes your location in a more friendly way than longitude/latitude coordinates
WOEID
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How is WOEID determined?
GPS coordinates from your mobile phone, computer, car or any other GPS device
Geo tags derived from user profiles like www.trendsmap.com
Your time zone
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Placemaker from Yahoo – Free geoparsing Web service for feeds, web pages, news, status updates
Language identifier
Text Mining – What you’re talking about in your social media activity
How is WOEID determined?
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How is WOEID determined?
FourSquare and other social media tools using that auto posting feature
Network theory – You probably live where your network is located
Publically available APIs for nearly every social media site including Facebook and Twitter
Facebook’s ‘Social Graph’ API
{ "name": "Facebook Platform", "type": "page", "website": "http://developers.facebook.com", "username": "platform", "founded": "May 2007", "company_overview": "Facebook Platform enables anyone to build...", "mission": "To make the web moe open and social.", "products": "Facebook Application Programming Interface (API)...", "fan_count": 449921, "id": 19292868552, "category": "Technology“ }
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How is WOEID determined?
Your extended social network: Blog Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MySpace
Paid services (online detective agencies)
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• Your data lives into perpetuity
• You don’t own the data once it’s posted onto the web
• Privacy policies change all the time
Social Media is here to stay BUT:
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How is WOEID used?
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Recommendations
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Behave as if the world is paying attention – it is
Turn off GEO tracking on your electronic devices (don’t forget your car)
Remove or deactivate social networking accounts you no longer use
Refrain from using auto posting features Refrain from using cross channel integration Become familiar with privacy settings
How to Stem Privacy Erosion
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Don’t post personal photos of anyone Never mention the names of my family Do not discuss where I’m going or advertise
when I’m going to be away from home Don’t reveal my birthdate
My Personal Rules
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Understanding the flow of data and the integration between social networking channels is key to protecting your privacy.
Social Media is NOT private
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Privacy Rights website (USA) www.privacyrights.org
Timothy Lisko (USA), @PrivacyWonkwww.privacywonk.net
Vivenne Storey (Australia), @mysocialpolicyhttp://mysocialmedialawyer.wordpress.com/
Good Resources
Questions?
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