Teaching Privacy in the Internet Age Our parents had it easy
when it came to teaching privacy. Their job was to teach us
about physical privacy and the right to protect our bodies, and
to tell unknown callers that our parents weren’t available
rather than to say they weren’t home. Today, parents face a far
greater teaching challenge as they now need to extend the
principles of privacy to emotional and personal information
privacy. When the internet was still young (all of what, 10
years ago?) we could be online and remain private with relative
ease, hiding behind a screen name, unable to be tracked by
search engines, data miners, companies or anyone else who today
collects information on your every move. We were in essence
anonymous while standing in the crowd of online users, except to
those few with whom we expressly chose to reveal our identities.
Those days are gone, and so too is the opportunity to
anonymously share emotions without the risk of fallout. Keeping
emotions private As evidenced by the hundre