Right to Privacy and Social Media

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Introduction With the growth of social media websites, such as Facebook, our privacy has become
increasingly more vulnerable to surveillance and commodification. As we have uploaded personal
information to social networks, we have increasingly allowed others access to our data. Moreover, most
social media users remain largely unaware how vulnerable their personal information has become to
information-aggregation and reselling activities. This essay contends that our ignorance of privacy
settings and policies on social media websites such as Facebook, has exposed us to potential increases in
social harassment, state intrusions, corporate surveillance and commodification, and has also reduced
our ability to control how others may perceive us. We may only be able to reclaim our ability to control
our privacy rights if we are able to control who may access our personal information through opt-in
accessibility options, if we have sufficient groups to monitor our rights, and if we have non-commodified
social networks to use.
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