Moot Court

Facebook Is Using You by LORI ANDREWS NYTimes/ February 4, 2012

SOAPS

* Subject: Privacy in network

* Occasion: The impetus for Lori Andrews’ writing this essay all this time was that Facebook was going to sell shares of stock to the public.

* Audience: The writer addresses her concerns to Facebook’s and other social site’s users and Google’s users.

* Purpose: Lori Andrews wants to tell, that everyone has its own rights, and people should deal with it. USA should adopt a law, which gives to people right to know what Internet knows about them.

* Speaker: Lori Andrews is a law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. She knows everything about law, about people’s rights, about privacy. Also she is the author of “I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy.” So I think that she has researched this problem, and knows all pros and cons of this issue.

Essay on the Essay

In “Facebook Is Using You” Lori Andrews states that there is no privacy on the network nowadays. Some companies deposit different tracking mechanisms on people’s computers and in their browsers. “LexisNexis has a product called Accurint for Law Enforcement” (Lori, 2012), which gives an opportunity to know what people do on social networks. All information that internet knows about your life can be used against you. “70 percent of recruiters and human resource professionals in the United States have rejected candidates based on data found online”. (Lori, 2012) Also material mined in network has been used in some situations as battling for child custody. But the worst thing is that there are “digital doppelgangers”. You can be turned down for credit, not because of your finances or credit history, but because of aggregate data — what other people whose likes and dislikes are similar to yours have done. “A 2008 Consumer Reports poll of 2,000 people found that 93 percent thought Internet companies should always ask for permission before...