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On Privacy Online in Brief by Troy Worman – www.troyworman.com

“We give the details of our lives away on social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn and we trade our personal data for access to word processors, email, and disk storage. Some pay to protect their privacy, but not many. Most of us just expect it to happen — the protection of our privacy — despite our behavior.”

In a chapter entitled ‘On Privacy Online in Brief‘ Troy asks if we are being realistic or hopelessly naive when we expect privacy online.

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