Lack of Notice, Lack of Autonomy

A 2008 Carnegie Mellon study determined that if we performed an annual review of the lengthy privacy policies girding our Internet activity, the sacrifice for our personal edification would be $365 billion in lost productivity. This calculation speaks to the imbalanced core of our relationship with for-profit communications technology: they provide quick means to satiate a primal need for social belonging, and in exchange, we cede bits of our autonomy over a long, data-mined period of time. This paper will explore how communication companies’ failure to give legal notice – and consumers’ inertia in taking notice – of their surveillance erodes our society's well-being.

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-- By MiaLee - 29 Nov 2011

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