Monday, April 21, 2008-04-25
5 girls 2 boys (ages 14 – 17)


1. What is important to you personally about privacy?
· Not being bothered
· No blocks – “being able to Google anything” – no government controls
· Right to say what you want and right to stay quiet if you desire
· Should be respected, not ridiculed because of our age

2. What information about yourself are you comfortable in giving out?
· Use nicknames/fake names on web sites
· Age is OK, e-mail, zip OK
· No address or telephone

3. Where do you draw the line and say “That’s none of your business!”
· Personal things

4. What do you think of when I ask you about confidentiality (privacy)?
· Library “quiet, no one bothers you
· Game of Clue
· Secrets
· Patient confidentiality
· Not for everyone’s eyes

5. What influences in our society are changing how we think about privacy?
· PATRIOT Act
· Books like Barcode Tattoo
· Sexual preference shouldn’t matter
· Internet –
- Double edge sword
- Lots of information, but lack of control “camera phones” YouTube
- Social networking sites
- People say things but realize the consequences
- Be someone else, put forward a difference face

6. How do you feel about privacy?
· Like it but it’s more limited
· Lines are blurred
· Technology swamped people so they do things because they can even if it’s not wise

7. What concerns do you have about privacy?
· Being taken away for both good and bad reasons (drugs, suicide, parents are misinterpreting concerns/paranoid)
· More aware via Internet of issues
· PATRIOT Act – B. Franklin “if sacrifice freedom for security you get nothing” is the invasiveness worth it? Push the envelope a little at a time, no going back
· Need to have a balance – it’s getting lost

8. What types of information could hurt a person if made public?
· Slander, rumors, gossip
· Something you tell your friend

9. What information about others do you feel you need to know?
· Name, if they are nice
· Maybe age

10. What decisions have you made about your privacy? Do you take any actions to protect your privacy?
· A little on Facebook, basically I use e-mail (so people who know you can search you)
· My e-mail goes through my parent’s e-mail

11. What trade‑offs or compromises would you be willing to make with your privacy?
· E-mail settings

12. Are you surprised at any of the things you have heard today?
· No, not really

Difference face-to-face and online
· Can’t tell emotions of people when online
· Not wise to tell people things when you are online
· Not real even with Webcam use
· Web sites (can choose private or public by invite) Facebook, AIM, YouTube, deviantART, Photobucket