Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness

230 Pages·2013·3.038 MB·English

by  Newton Lee (auth.)

Facebook Nation
Newton Lee
Facebook Nation
Total Information Awareness
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Contents
Part I Prologue
1 From 1984 to Total Information Awareness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1 President Ronald Reagan in 1984. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2 Total Information Awareness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Part II Privacy in the Age of Big Data
2 Social Networks and Privacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.1 Zero Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.2 The Pervasiveness of Facebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.3 Facebook and Personal Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.4 Facebook, Children, and COPPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.5 Facebook and Peer Pressure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.6 Reality TV and Social Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.7 YouTube and Facebook Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.8 Netflix and Social Apps on Facebook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.9 Facebook Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.10 Ambient Social Apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.11 Stalking Apps and Facebook for Sex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2.12 Facial Recognition Apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.13 Facial Recognition on Facebook, Google+, and iPhone. . . . . 30
2.14 Virtual Passports: From Privacy to Data Use . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.15 Social Search: Google, Plus Your World
and Microsoft’s Bing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.16 Connected Cars: In-vehicle Social Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
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3 Smartphones and Privacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3.1 Smartphones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3.2 Location Tracking on iPhone and iPad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
3.3 Carrier IQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
3.4 Smartphone Data Collection Transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
3.5 Always On. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
3.6 Mobile Apps Privacy Invasion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
3.7 Mobile Apps for Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
3.8 Android Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
3.9 Apple Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
3.10 Facebook App Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
4 Consumer Privacy in the Age of Big Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
4.1 Oil of the Digital Age–Personal Information for Sale . . . . . . 61
4.2 Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.3 California’s Online Privacy Protection Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
4.4 European Union’s Right to be Forgotten Law . . . . . . . . . . . 64
4.5 A Response to Zero Privacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Part III The Rise of Facebook Nation
5 Twitter: A World of Immediacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
5.1 The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
5.2 Citizen Journalists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
5.3 A World of Immediacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
5.4 Prevalence of Twitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
5.5 Advertisements on Twitter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.6 Creative Uses of Twitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
6 Generation C in the Age of Big Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
6.1 Digital Omnivores and Generation C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
6.2 Big Data Research and Development Initiative. . . . . . . . . . . 78
6.3 Big Data in Public Health and Economics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
6.4 Big Data in Facebook and Google . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
7 Privacy Breaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
7.1 Google Street View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
7.2 Google Easter Eggs in Disguise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
7.3 Apple Software Bugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
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7.4 Carrier IQ and Other Privacy Blunders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
8 Business Intelligence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
8.1 Intelligent Digital Billboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
8.2 Tumblr and Gmail: Yes to Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
8.3 Social Ads on Facebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
8.4 Sponsored Stories and Facebook Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
8.5 Mobile Market and Instagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
8.6 Location-Based Mobile Advertisements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
8.7 Disney and Other Businesses on Facebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
9 Misinformation and Disinformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
9.1 The War of the Worlds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
9.2 Misinformation and Disinformation on Twitter
and Facebook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
9.3 Serious Consequences of Misinformation
and Disinformation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
9.4 Trustworthiness of Wikipedia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
9.5 Google Search Sabotage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
9.6 Advertising Misinformation and Disinformation. . . . . . . . . . 107
9.7 Fake Information on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube . . . . . 108
9.8 Facebook Account Verification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
9.9 Twitter Verified Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
9.10 Abuse of Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
10 E-Government and E-Activism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
10.1 President Barack Obama and Web 2.0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
10.2 Gov 2.0 Apps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
10.3 The Kony 2012 Phenomenon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
10.4 Reactions to Kony 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
10.5 SOPA/PIPA Blackout Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
10.6 Reactions to SOPA/PIPA Blackout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
10.7 Battles over Internet Legislations: OPEN, ACTA, CISPA . . . 131
10.8 Internet Activism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
10.9 Transnational (Arab–Israeli) Facebook Nation . . . . . . . . . . . 134
10.10 Internet Censorship in Western Democracies and China . . . . 135
10.11 Arab Spring Uprisings and Egypt Shutting Down
the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
10.12 The Rise of Facebook Nation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
10.13 Electoral College and Social Network Constitution. . . . . . . . 137
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
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Part IV Total Information Awareness in Facebook Nation
11 Living in Facebook Nation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
11.1 Digital Personalities and Identities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
11.2 Intertwining Lives, Online and Offline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
11.3 Digital Footprint and Exhaust Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
11.4 Facebook Knows Who, When, Where. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
11.5 Online Births in Facebook Nation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
12 Personal Information Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
12.1 Identity Theft Prevention. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
12.2 Privacy Protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
12.3 Privacy on Facebook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
12.4 Privacy on Google . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
12.5 Data Vault: Data is the New Oil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
12.6 Personal Analytics and Social Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
13 Total Information Awareness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
13.1 Humanity’s Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
13.2 Ambient Awareness and Suicide Prevention. . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
13.3 Parental Awareness and (Cyber) Bullying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
13.4 Student Awareness and School Safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
13.5 Crime Awareness and Video Surveillance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
13.6 Community Awareness and Neighborhood Watch. . . . . . . . . 180
13.7 Location Awareness and Traffic Safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
13.8 Location Awareness and Personal Safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
13.9 Information Awareness and Law Enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . 184
13.10 Self-Awareness and Online Dating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
13.11 Pandora’s Box of Total Information Awareness . . . . . . . . . . 188
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Part V Epilogue
14 From Total Information Awareness to 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
14.1 Brave New World of Total Information Awareness. . . . . . . . 199
14.2 George Orwell’s 1984. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
14.3 Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
14.4 Point of No Return. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
14.5 Facebook Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
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Facebook Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221