Wednesday, May 4, 2016

When Selfies Become Surveillance Beacons

Author(s): 
Woodrow Hartzog
Publication Date: 
May 4, 2016
Publication Type: 
Other Writing

Few things repre­sent the age of social media better than posting a selfie. We share these ubiq­ui­tous self-portraits with such an urgency you’d think we’d cease to exist if we stopped producing them at a rapid and ongoing rate. Think about taking a trip to a gorgeous loca­tion. If you exer­cise “selfie-control” and don’t post a picture of your­self at a place like the beach, did the exquisite voyage really happen? 



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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on May 04, 2016 at 08:34PM

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