Privacy Problems in the Online World

Modern technology's benefits have accelerated our migration to social networking and other online activities. However, the confluence of the online world and life offline is imperfect, immature, and incomplete. People's habits, customs, and relationships are going through profound changes...

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Published inIEEE internet computing Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 4 - 6
Main Author Almeida, Virgilio A.F.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.03.2012
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
communication
Digital
Human
Internet
Migration
multidisciplinarity
On-line systems
Online
online world
Privacy
Social networks
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Summary:Modern technology's benefits have accelerated our migration to social networking and other online activities. However, the confluence of the online world and life offline is imperfect, immature, and incomplete. People's habits, customs, and relationships are going through profound changes that will have as-yet-unknown effects on them and society as a whole. Here, the author looks at how literature can help identify and characterize the human nature of privacy problems in the online world. Multidisciplinary approaches that align knowledge from social sciences and humanities with computer science are needed to tackle the problem of privacy in the digital world.
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ISSN:1089-7801
1941-0131
DOI:10.1109/MIC.2012.36