The question about how notions of privacy can be maintained, in what some are calling a “surveillance culture” and others (including me) are not, is both interesting and complex. It has permeated some of the discussions on the ePedagogy course, and indeed Christina and others are currently working on a project that looks at this topic.

There is an article in the current New York magazine news and features section entitled Kids, the Internet and the end of privacy. There is also an article by Greg Lukianoff, the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and his colleague Officer Will Creeley who write in the Boston Phoenix, about how American colleges are concerning themselves with what their students do and don’t say in arenas like FaceBook.

I found these through an entry I found in Virginia Postrel’s Dynamist blog, which relates these back to David Brin’s 1999 book The Transparent Society .

I can’t remember how I got there though.