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Young will have to change names to escape 'cyber past' warns Google's Eric Schmidt
The private lives of young people are now so well documented on the internet that many will have to change their names on reaching adulthood, Google’s CEO has claimed.
Eric Schmidt suggested that young people should be entitled to change their identity to escape their misspent youth, which is now recorded in excruciating detail on social networking sites such as Facebook.
"I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time," Mr Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal.
Facebook users will be forced to change their names to escape cyber past, says Google boss
Eric Schmidt said the enormous quantity of detail left online by young users could come back to haunt them when they apply for jobs in future.
‘I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time,’ he told the Wall Street Journal.
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Google chief warns on social networking dangers
"I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time," he said. "I mean we really have to think about these things as a society. I'm not even talking about the really terrible stuff, terrorism and access to evil things."
Ten ways to protect your privacy online
Facebook, Google, MySpace, Twitter, Bebo, Habbo, the proliferation of social networking means people are making more information about themselves accessible to strangers than ever before.
As attitudes to privacy are starting to change, here is a short list of some ways you can protect your privacy online:
5) untag yourself - social networking sites allow other people to "tag" photos of you but you have the opportunity to remove it, which is sometimes wise. So pay attention when you are prompted to do such things.
TAT Augmented ID utilizes the clever Flickr face recognition tech from the guys at Polar Rose to recognize a face and surround them with their social networking profiles from sites like Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm.
"I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time," Mr Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal.
Surveillance Cameras Win Broad Support
Crime-fighting beats privacy in public places: Americans, by nearly a 3-to-1 margin, support the increased use of surveillance cameras — a measure decried by some civil libertarians, but credited in London with helping to catch a variety of perpetrators since the early 1990s.
Given the chief arguments, pro and con — a way to help solve crimes vs. too much of a government intrusion on privacy — it isn't close: 71 percent of Americans favor the increased use of surveillance cameras, while 25 percent oppose it.
London's surveillance network, known as the "Ring of Steel," is said to have aided in the capture of suspects, including those accused of a pair of attempted car bombings in June.
A similar system is coming to New York City, which plans 100 new surveillance cameras in downtown Manhattan by year's end and 3,000 — public and private — by 2010. Chicago and Baltimore plan expanded surveillance systems as well.
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Facial scanning software to go public
A new program scans a face and then trawls the web for photographs of that person is to be made publicly available. The software, which was developed by Israel-based Face.com, is thought to be correct 90 percent of the time and is already being used by 5,000 developers, although the reasons they were using the software was not disclosed.
"You can basically search for people in any photo. You could search for family members on Flickr, in newspapers, or in videos on YouTube," Face.com's CEO Gil Hirsch, told the Sunday Times.
Until now, similar software has only been available to government organisations such as the UK Border Agency or those developing social networks.
However, privacy campaigners including Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, have raised concerns over the software.
"I think this will make many people very uneasy. The regulators have been hugely behind the curve of protecting people's privacy on the internet. We need to push for much tighter international rules."
Originally posted by Titen-Sxull
reply to post by Chevalerous
The grid is coming and its pretty much inevitable. You can either lose your technophobic paranoia or decide to abstain from the system (though that will only protect you for so long).
Originally posted by m0r1arty
Now this is my type of crazy.
Actual bona fide advise that will protect people from the corrupt corporations.
Star, flagged, sent to friends because this is the type of education we actually need on the web.
It won't just stop at kids and/or their chance at an education or employment.
Insurance companies, hospitals, governments and anyone who can benefit from this volunteered information will us it to their advantage and it will be to your disadvantage.
Super thread. I wish it could be sent out in the newsletter to all members are proof of a real conspiracy that will have knock on effects for everyone we know.
-m0r
A user on Facebook's blog wrote, "I'm upset that this was enabled by default -- especially for people who are victims of stalking and harassment, it could be potentially dangerous if their location was broadcast to the world. Please change it so that this feature (especially the ability of your friends to indicate your location) is turned off."
Facebook has brought the geo-tracking phemomenon to the masses. But there are pitfalls.
And, even if you're not on Facebook, there are some things you need to know about the new check-in service: Places to protect your privacy
Facebook has finally launched its location-based service: Places. Places allows Facebook users to “check in” wherever they are (or pretend to be) using a mobile device, and let’s their friends know where they are at the moment - But as I’ve played around with the service, I’ve uncovered a problem with Facebook’s assertion that “no one can be checked in to a location without their explicit permission.”
So, where does this leave us? My wife has not authorized me (or anyone) to check her into places. She doesn’t use the service. In fact, she wasn’t even at the liquor store at all.
According to a Sunday Times report, one journalist who tested the software uncovered "a slew of unseen and untagged pictures taken by distant friends over several years, triggering forgotten memories of holidays, parties and university life. It also produced a catalogue of pictures of each friend - amounting to an intimate photographic diary of their lives."
Google boss Eric Schmidt warned this week that when they grow up, many young people are going to want to change their names, so desperate will they be to dissociate themselves from the trail of personal revelations they are casually leaving behind them on the web. It is ironic that the same digital culture that is accused of shortening attention spans is keeping our past selves alive and present for much longer than the analogue, biological world ever could
Under strong government pressure, the Internet giant made Germany the only country where people can request to have images of their homes deleted from the project before it goes online in November, along with other concessions.
"There is a fear of becoming a 'See-through Citizen' in a totalitarian surveillance state," said Jesko Kaltenbaek, a professor of psychology at Berlin's Freie University.
"Both under the Nazis and in the former East Germany, the exact knowledge of citizens' lives served as a decisive instrument of power for government leaders."
"What most Americans believe to be 'Public Opinion' is in reality carefully crafted and scripted propaganda designed to elicit a desired behavioral response from the public." - Canadian writer Ken Adachi
"We seek to strengthen transatlantic economic integration, with the goal of improving competitiveness and the lives of our people."
Bush OKs 'integration' with European Union - Congress never asked
about new obligation
President Bush signed an agreement creating a "permanent body" that commits the U.S. to "deeper transatlantic economic integration," without ratification by the Senate as a treaty or passage by Congress as a law.
Originally posted by serbsta
Untag yourself?
You do know that Facebook keeps anything, and everything associated with you and your account indefinitely? It really doesn't matter if you untag yourself from all your embarrassing photos, those photos are still associated with your account and can re-emerge. Like you said, look at face.com, that is the epitomization of surveillance society.