Facebook: Surveillance and Changing Notions of Privacy in the Social Networking Era

Vanessa Keen’s study of Facebook surveillance exposes the anxious and aggressive gleaning of information-rich profiles from social networking sites like Facebook, revealing the risks of exposure inherent in blogging, networking, and Facebooking that may be vacuumed by prospective employers, marketers, police, and, in the age of a perpetual war on terror, intelligence agencies.