Does privacy still exist?
“…the growing reliance on social media and greater usages of physically intrusive technologies have opened the door to new surveillance opportunities”
Paik, S., Mays, K. K., & Katz, J. E. (2022). Invasive yet inevitable? Privacy normalization trends in biometric technology. Social Media + Society, 8(4).
https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221129147
I chose this article because I think we are increasingly surveilling ourselves and allowing data to be collected and stored without clear safeguards. The research surveyed a representative sample of 1150 people to investigate attitudes in the US to the collection and use of biometric data by consumer technology. Questionnaires were developed to investigate three key questions surrounding the use of DNA identification and facial recognition technologies:
- How does the context that the technology is used affect a person’s comfort level with that use?
- How does who is collecting the information and how is it used or shared affect someone’s attitude to the use and sharing of gathered information?
- How do concerns about privacy and information security affect how these technologies are viewed? Finish reading Does privacy still exist?