March 26, 2008
Alligator Editorial on Privacy Protection
UF’s campus newspaper the Independent Florida Alligator has an interesting Editorial on privacy violations in Tuesday’s issue. They chastise the mainstream press for highlighting the privacy breach concerning the Democratic candidates’ passport snoopings while ignoring the plentiful and massive security breaches of Joe Gator personal information. They point out that “there is still no national law to protect the privacy of the information you share online.”
Even a few years ago such a niche topic would probably not have been taken serious by many students but the increased time spent on social networking sites and the Internet in general seems to have changed that.
The Alligator remains skeptical about any of this changing soon but of course: knowing is half the battle.
