Week 8...Privacy and Surveilliance cultures.

In the world of today, with growing technology and more and more people wanting to know your private imformation every day, the theories surrounding privacy have never been as important.

The web has created people who dont mind giving their information away. But is this because they feel safe to do so. There is a data protection act, but it is also noted that each company (who asks for personal details) must have its own policy to do with data. Saying this the amount of people who take note of each companys data protection policy is very minimal.

The creation of social networking sites has made it easier and easier for people to acess imformation about you. For example, if you type my brothers name into google, his facebook page appears. Is this not a breech of privacy? Or is the fact we are allowing ourselfs to give all this imformation away showing our lack of care for our own online saftey?

Facebook....the biggest social network site on the UK.