Please Rob Me....

If you use services from twitter or foursquare, there is a burglar service that uses these messages to publish which homes are currently unoccupied…
http://pleaserobme.com/

Hilarious… Also a sad way to show how much folks aren’t aware they put their privacy on the wide open for folks you don’t want them to know what you do and where you are…

I read about a teacher who printed out facebook-profiles of her students and put them in the display in school where everybody could see it. Pupils were shocked and learned a lesson about privacy.

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That would only bother me as much as someone posting a piece of paper with my name on it. The only thing that’s disturbing about it is the creepiness factor of “why on earth would someone get all stalkerish like that?” … and I think that’s about the level the prof here was operating at: Stalkerish… it was either that or just plain ignorance. One could just as easily rip the kids pictures out of their yearbooks and post them on the walls, and I’m sure it would elicit an identical response. Should kids now be concerned about the privacy issues of yearbooks?

There’s NOTHING on my Facebook profile that I don’t want the whole world seeing, and I’m sure it’s the same for most kids posting on Facebook. They’re well aware they’re allowing the whole world to see the information they post, and as such, they only post what they want the whole world to be able to see. For some, that’s more revealing than others, but it’s fairly obvious to almost everybody that Facebook isn’t private at all.

Either way, that prof should’ve been reprimanded for what she did. I could provide about a dozen other sources of information he could have posted about them that weren’t Facebook, and it would have been considered wrong if not illegal… starting with the phone book.

If you don’t think my examples are compelling enough, imagine if a prof matched yearbook pictures with phone numbers and posted those on the walls.

Also, in regards to the first post, I’d be more concerned about people casing my house from the street than people online. The fact is, the traditional methods of looking to see if there’s a car in the driveway, then looking through windows to see if anyone’s home are more effective than monitoring updates looking to see where someone is. I get more and more annoyed these days with these superficial privacy concerns. There are much more important things to be worried about in regards to security.

You don’t have to live up to these standards, but you got to admit that some folks are just too easily throwing out stuff on the streets that could be kept to themselves.

It is also a kind of message asking the question “what do we need privacy laws for if we don’t take our privacy serious?”.
This message though has two approaches:
The first approach where we are ignorant about our privacy, the other approach is: frankly, we don’t actually have privacy as most official agencies have access to a lot of our private stuff, so against whom would we need actual protection?