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Forum #1 Group – 5 adolescent boys ages 15 – 16 Privacy is very important to all of them.

What is important about privacy to you?

My rights as a person, a citizen. That the government shouldn’t be or isn’t snooping around my life looking for stuff I’m not even thinking about doing, let alone do. Resentment at the airport for all the screening stuff. It’s ridiculous, they look so ridiculous looking at some old lady’s bag. Also, that there are cameras everywhere these days it seems. Buzzing or beeping sounds that go off when I enter a store announcing my presence. Basically, though it’s the fact that I should have rights that I feel are being squeezed.

What information about yourself are you comfortable giving out?

My name, my birthday. . That’s about it. Photos are okay. What kind of music I like.

Where do you draw the line and say “That’s none of your business!”

Giving out my social security number, sometimes my address-depends on who’s asking. They draw the line about someone asking about my grades. If I watched porn.

What do you think of when I ask you about privacy?

All unanimously said “The government.” (and all at once).

What influences in our society are changing how we think about privacy?

They all felt that the media is a huge invasion of their privacy. They disliked the amount of time spent on stupid stuff by the media. Who cares? Angry that the media (mainly television) wastes or tries to waste their time on things that are stupid, instead of representing the truth about everything.

How do you feel about privacy?

Overall, the boys did not like the government ‘invading’ their privacy at all. Very strong feelings here. All have a distrust of the government and believe that the government lies to Americans. They had a fear about the government tracking them with chips implanted in their bodies and then knowing what they were doing and where they were all the time. They said “What privacy? That word would eventually be removed from the dictionary and then when there’s a time when the word doesn’t exist anymore, so then the thought of private things won’t exist anymore either.”

What concerns do you have about privacy?

They don’t like having cameras in the hallways at school. They feel that they could be set-up for something they didn’t do. If I had a disease I wouldn’t want it to be public knowledge. That is my right or obligation to tell who I chose, not someone else’s. The police searching me or my stuff just because they feel like it, and try to scare me.

What types of information could hurt a person if made public?

If someone was sick and couldn’t get into a job.

What information about others do you feel you need to know?

Basically, they were fine with knowing “whatever anybody wants to tell me.” boy chimed in and added “yeah, cause it might not even be true anyway!!”

What decisions have you made about your privacy?

All of the boys used different emails for different purposes.

What tradeoffs or compromises would you be willing to make with your privacy?

If I needed to do something for my family or friends. Already, I go through airport security even though I hate it so that I can visit my family.

Are you surprised at any of the things you have heard today?

No, not really. Just that somebody would ask me questions like these.

ccaywood	Latest page update: made by ccaywood , Dec 19 2007, 5:06 PM EST (about this update About This Update Edited by ccaywood 587 words added view changes - complete history)
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