Fb和Twitter使用者破壞自己的私隱權

Fb和Twitter使用者破壞他們的私隱權
'Facebook and Twitter users 'undermine their right to privacy'
People who use social-networking websites like Facebook and Twitter could be eroding their own right to privacy, a philosopher has warned.
人們使用社交網站如Facebook和Twitter，可能削弱自己的私隱權，一名哲學家警告。
Published: 6:17PM GMT 07 Jan 2010

Hackers temporarily blocked access to the popular internet messaging service Twitter
黑客暫時封鎖了廣受歡迎的互聯網信息服務Twitter的入口

Employers and the authorities are putting new media sites under greater surveillance, encouraged by users who bare their personal lives to the world, unwittingly inviting them in to view compromising photographs and messages.
僱主和當局受用戶鼓勵正在把新媒體網站納入更大監視，用户們向世界暴露他們的個人生活，不知不覺地邀請他們來查看讓步的照片和消息。
Dr Kieron O'Hara, a computer scientist and philosopher, of the University of Southampton, said: "Users of new media, in their self-disclosure, are often as complicit in assaults on our privacy as the authorities which orchestrate surveillance."
一名修咸頓大學的電腦科學家和哲學家基隆奧哈拉博士說：“正當當局在編排監視時，新媒體的用戶他們的自我揭露，經常作我們隱私的襲擊同謀。”
Kimberley Swann, 16, was sacked from her job as an office administrator in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, last year after posting status updates about how boring the work was.

Meanwhile, Kyle Doyle, who worked for a telecommunications company in Sydney, was caught faking a sick day when he boasted about it on Facebook in October 2008.

Employees from large companies such as Marks and Spencer, Virgin Atlantic and British Airways have also been caught out posting rude comments about their customers on Facebook forums.

A conference at the London School of Economics and Political Science also heard that sharing intimate details on the sites could damage personal relationships.

Dr Adam Joinson of the University of Bath, an expert in computer communication, said: "As new technology and social media encourage sharing of the small details of everyday life, it also reduces privacy in social relationships, and may have negative effects on intimacy levels between people. If you desire intimacy, it may well be disastrous to add your partner to Facebook, or to follow them on Twitter."

About 300 experts are attending the annual conference of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/6947950/Facebook-and-Twitter-users-undermine-their-right-to-privacy.html