Lecture 14: Ethics and social media. After studying this chapter you will be able to understand: Privacy questions different to ’traditional’ issues, expectations of on-line privacy, privacy in SoMes, user generated content, property (immaterial). | LECTURE 14 ETHICS AND SOCIAL MEDIA SOCIAL MEDIA: EXAMPLES OF ISSUES IN Privacy Property Teaching Friendship Etc. 5/14/2020 6:47:49 AM Kai K. Kimppa PRIVACY QUESTIONS DIFFERENT TO ’TRADITIONAL’ ISSUES ”Forgive and forget” does not exist any more. What was once on-line, can be found always (Blanchette & Johnson, 2002) Obligation to protect the future privacy interests of children/teens? (Bülow & Wester, 2011) Streisand effect (residence of the singer) Concept of privacy changing? Everyone makes mistakes No one is expected to be ’perfect’ Since what one has done is always available, one is expected to always be same? 5/14/2020 6:47:49 AM Kai K. Kimppa EXPECTATIONS OF ON-LINE PRIVACY Can we expect to not be known? Writing to IRC, other chat, bulletin board or blog / news paper comments section, expecting to be ‘anonymous’ Is a ‘nick’ with no identifying information some sort of guarantee for anonymity? A lot of information available in many cases Searches to identify etc. Internet ‘discussions’ not similar to physical discussions, anyone can log them and find the information later People generally think that they have more privacy than they actually do On-line monitoring, “spyware”—one generally does not know when one is logged/monitored In (open) Blogs there can be no expectation of privacy – even if written with a ‘nick’ (Grodzinsky & Tavani, 2009) 5/14/2020 6:47:49 AM Kai K. Kimppa PRIVACY IN SOMES Public and private blur – in SoMes it is difficult to control the audiences of ones posts (see . Netchitailova, 2011 on Facebook). Most people just do not bother, but the added illusion of anonymity promotes writing things one would not divulge of one’s private life, say, in Blogs or similar. Also, some groups (such as children and/or elderly – for different reasons) have undue trust to hand over their private information to outsiders (See . Chai et al., 2008). Pictures in SoMes? Does anyone ever ask whether the pictures they take can be | LECTURE 14 ETHICS AND SOCIAL MEDIA SOCIAL MEDIA: EXAMPLES OF ISSUES IN Privacy Property Teaching Friendship Etc. 5/14/2020 6:47:51 AM Kai K. Kimppa PRIVACY QUESTIONS DIFFERENT TO ’TRADITIONAL’ ISSUES ”Forgive and forget” does not exist any more. What was once on-line, can be found always (Blanchette & Johnson, 2002) Obligation to protect the future privacy interests of children/teens? (Bülow & Wester, 2011) Streisand effect (residence of the singer) Concept of privacy changing? Everyone makes mistakes No one is expected to be ’perfect’ Since what one has done is always available, one is expected to always be same? 5/14/2020 6:47:51 AM Kai K. Kimppa EXPECTATIONS OF ON-LINE PRIVACY Can we expect to not be known? Writing to IRC, other chat, bulletin board or blog / news paper comments section, expecting to be ‘anonymous’ Is a ‘nick’ with no identifying information some sort of guarantee for anonymity? A lot of information available in many cases Searches to identify
