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Smartphones: Sacrificing Privacy for Convenience
By: Alexa Padovani
Flickr Image; Profile cmm08f
78% of young people, ages 12 to 17
now have cellphones. Nearly half
of those are smartphones
Image By: Peter Oshkai
1 In 4 young people say they are
"cell-‐mostly" Internet users
Image By: Jinsan Lee
How can parents monitor what their children are accessing and what they are truly using their smart phones for? Image by: Flickr user cmm08f User cmm08f
Cellphone Dependency "The occasional day where my phone isn't charged or I leave it behind, it feels almost as though I'm naked in public,” -‐Michael Weller, high school senior
Image By: Barrie Scheiderman
The conversaIon has shiJed from
wow, isn't all this technology cool to wow, how do we control it? We can't eliminate it completely.” -‐Aisha Sultan
Image By: User-‐Technology Market Research
More privacy threats are beginning to appear in smartphone apps; but which are the most CONCERNING to look out for?
Image By: cmm08f
Snapchat Whatever else Snapchat proved good for, everyone soon agreed, the boys at Kappa Sigma had created the people’s champ of smartphone peep shows.
Image By: Andrew Bender
“Fans of eroIca are quick to embrace any new technology that allows them to check out the goods..with greater anonymity and lower risk of
exposure” -‐patchen barss
Image By: Flickr User Ms. Sparkles
TwiZer
TwiTer's content is retained and searchable through plenty of web services.
Image By: Vico & MoZa Soluciones
“People are already beginning to fret about the social implicaIons of Glass The first, and most obvious, is the quesIon of privacy”
Google Glass
Image By: Ars electronica
how comfortable – or uneasy – should we feel about the possibility that what we're doing in a public or semi-‐public place (or even somewhere private) might get slurped up and assimilated by Google?
Image By: Summer Hellewell
What they're going to do based on their past acIvity and searches, you realize that if you're using an Android phone, Google probably knows what you're going to do before you do.
Image By: Lorna taylor
Finally – and here's where the problems really start
– you don't know if they're taking a video of you.” -‐Mark Hurst Image By: Nick depree
“When we put on these surveillance devices, we all become spies, or scrooglers, of everything and everyone around us.” -‐Andrew Keen Image By: Jenny De Groot
What soluIons can parents, and others concerned with privacy, implement? Image By: Josine Frankhuizen
Too oJen, he and others say, adults don't fully understand how the smartphones work -‐-‐ or how their kids might use them differently than they do. Image By:Maddie mills
Many smartphones have restricIon menus that allow parents to block certain phone funcIons, or mature content. though many tech experts agree that these applicaIons can be hit-‐or-‐miss
Image By: Flickr User -‐ Angela
"Part of it is simply asking,
'What are you doing, and why?'”
Image By: Teddy madison
“Too much of the online safety conversabon has focused on surveillance. Surveillance will not help in a world of handhelds, but conversabon will” -‐ Boyd
Image By: Flickr User Neeilmmakers
Truly, if parents are not willing to communicate with their children, how can they expect their children to communicate with
them? Image By: Flickr User Katharine of Chicago
Research Used From: hZp://www.bmes-‐gazeZe.com/ap%20general%20news/2013/01/10/mom-‐goes-‐viral-‐with-‐son-‐s-‐phone-‐code-‐of-‐conduct hZp://www.ctvnews.ca/more-‐youth-‐use-‐smartphones-‐to-‐log-‐online-‐u-‐s-‐report-‐1.1193559#ixzz2Qnxqu5cd hZp://www.ctvnews.ca/more-‐youth-‐use-‐smartphones-‐to-‐log-‐online-‐u-‐s-‐report-‐1.1193559#ixzz2Qnxqu5cd hZp://www.businessweek.com/arbcles/2013-‐02-‐07/snapchat-‐and-‐the-‐erasable-‐future-‐of-‐social-‐media hZp://www.cnn.com/2013/02/25/tech/innovabon/google-‐glass-‐privacy-‐andrew-‐keen hZp://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/06/google-‐glass-‐threat-‐to-‐our-‐privacy *All Images obtained from Flickr and credited to individual arbsts*