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Mar 27

Privacy and social network: towards a Global Bill of Rights

2008 at 12,29 autore published by ciaopeople

Social networking  has become a personal issue; or more precisely, a question of data and personal information. Billions of names, last names and addresses included in the appropriate registration forms and many life stories written in blogs and gathered on servers around the world. The problem of the diffusion of personal identity becomes increasingly impressive and goes hand in hand with the increase of  social networking of every kind scattered throughout the internet.

On the one hand we have the eternal problem of advertising.

Internet collects an increasing amount of advertising. Rupert Murdoch, who acquired MySpace in 2005, seems convinced to be able to attract the same  audience, in terms of numbers,

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Feb 11

Facebook, Twitter, MySpace represent the most successful social networks and are enjoying their glory days. They allow their users to manage their social contacts in a very simple way, be informed of news from friends and meet new people.

Facebook, for example, totally satisfies these needs, monitoring your friends’ updates, with a feed reader, or with customized applications.

Today Social networks focus on improving the services their softwares offer users to allow them to track their activities, those of their friends and maintain social contact.

It is fair to say that the present system satisfies one of the main requirements of an online user: social communication and possibility to create a virtual network of

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