@DanielSolove on Do Young People Care About Privacy?
Source : http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121010201716-2259773-do-young-people-care-about-privacy by Daniel J. Solove is the John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School, the founder of TeachPrivacy , a privacy/data security training company, and a Senior Policy Advisor at Hogan Lovells. Do Young People Care About Privacy? “A common argument I hear is that young people just don't care about privacy. If they cared about privacy, why would they share so much personal data on Facebook? Why would they text so much? Why would they be so cavalier about their privacy? Privacy will be dead in a generation, the argument goes. This argument is wrong for several reasons. Studies show that young people do care about privacy. A few years ago, a study by Chris Hoofnagle and others revealed that young people's attitudes about privacy didn't differ much from older...