Privacy, Free Speech and Anonymity on the Internet

Privacy, Free Speech and Anonymity on the Internet.

The transcript of an interesting Question & Answer session hosted by Daniel J. Solove, an associate Law Professor at George Washington University on the Washington Post website, which covers the Megan Meier MySpace suicide case, and the concerns of members of social networking sites regarding their privacy.

People do indeed put a lot of personal information about themselves online, especially teenagers and college students. I call them “Generation Google.” They’ll have to live with an extensive amount of fragments of gossip and rumor about their lives on the Internet, readily accessible anytime a person does a Google search under their name. Since people are just learning about social network websites and blogs, many haven’t experienced the consequences of putting too much information out there.

“Generation Google”? We were recently discussing the X, Y, and Nintendo generations, and someone asked “what’s the next generation group going to be called?” Looks like we have the answer.