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THE PRIVATE IS POLITICAL NETWORKED PRIVACY AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Th e term “network” can mean all sorts of things, but I use it here to
describe three levels of connections, all insecure. Th ere are the social connec-
tions made explicit by social technologies; the behavioral networks mapped
and traced through consumer-level tracking and aggregation of big data; and
perhaps most powerful and invisible, the deeply rooted and interconnected
networks of surveillance by which the state controls its citizens through
education, employment, social services, and criminal justice. As Ravi says,
the agency to control the fl ow of information—to determine who receives
it and in what context—is necessary to personal privacy, but when privacy
is networked, this ability is always compromised. Networked privacy is en-
abled not only by social platforms and the actors behind them but by the
very act of digitization. Digitization transforms ephemeral information like
who your friends are or what you buy into something visible, traceable, and
measurable. Networked privacy is a new framework for understanding pri-
vacy in a world saturated with social media, state and corporate surveillance,
and big data technologies.
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