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Sep 5, 2012Jan Lauren Boyles, Aaron Smith, Mary Madden
More than half of app users have uninstalled or avoided an app due to concerns about personal information
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Sharing information about yourself is the bedrock of social networking sites and other online communities. Pew Internet focuses on how people search for others online and manage their online identities.
Cecilia Kang, Washington Post | Post Tech
Mar 15, 2010
Mary Madden, a senior researcher at the Pew Center’s Internet & American Life Project, said with social networking becoming mainstream, there are bound to be missteps by Web sites that will challenge users’ views of privacy online.
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Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press
Feb 12, 2010
Privacy concerns intensify when Web sites get social because people want control over what information they share, and with whom. Or at least they say they do, according to surveys by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Their actions, howeve...
The Economist
Jan 28, 2010
IF THERE is one thing that could halt the ascent of social networks, it is the vexed question of privacy. This is controversial because it goes right to the heart of the social-networking business model. In order to attract users, sites need to offer...
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Laura M. Holson, New York Times
Jan 6, 2010
One byproduct of the digital revolution is that trust is being assigned new meaning. According to the Internet and American Life Project at the Pew Research Center, one in five teenagers polled shares online passwords as a way to build trust and fost...
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Dec 8, 2009
Text messages are the new lipstick on the collar, the mislaid credit card bill. Instantaneous and seemingly casual, they can be confirmation of a clandestine affair, a record of the not-so-discreet who sometimes forget that everything digital leaves ...
Vikki Ortiz Healy, Chicago Tribune
Sep 20, 2009
A beauty school student thought he was offering classmates a place to vent when he created a Facebook page mocking teachers and classes. "Don't be afraid to post comments on whats going on, this is yor voice too. All for one and one for all right?...
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Suzanne Ma, Associated Press
Sep 17, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) — Matching mullets, regrettable tattoos, metal mouths and goofy grins. Such long-lost looks were never meant to be seen by anyone except those flipping through the pages of an old family album or studying the photo frames on the fir...
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Kevin Whitelaw, NPR
Sep 2, 2009
Some of the change is cultural. Users have been flocking to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, where they voluntarily share all kinds of details about their lives. In some ways, the meteoric success of these sites could be a reacti...
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Sep 1, 2009
This data set contains questions about how people monitor and maintain their online identities. It was used in the reports "Reputation Management and Social Media" and "Twitter and Status Updating Fall 2009".
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Jul 18, 2008Susannah Fox
A recent JAMA article warns doctors to follow their own digital footprints since patients may be doing so already. But is searching for information about a doctor so different from searching for information about a neighbor, classmate, or colleague?
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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center. The Center is supported by The Pew Charitable Trust.