“Facebook has sparked a new debate about privacy and I think it’s time to bring it to health care.
What does it mean when millions of people flock to share/overshare information, even as Facebook’s default privacy settings have slowly become openness settings (but the company maintains radio silence)? Pew Internet research shows that a sizeable portion of the population (young people, in particular) carefully manage their online reputations, but where does that leave the rest? Consumer groups in the U.S. have requested an investigation and the Canadian and German governments are sharpening their knives, too.”
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Susannah Fox, e-Patients.net, 21 May 2010
