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Who needs privacy anymore? Perception of online privacy among Warsaw high school students

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the functioning of the notion of privacy among internet users between 15 and 19 years of age. The authors cite the results of preliminary empirical research indicating that the internet has changed the perception of privacy. In exchange for information access and personalized searches, the web collects an increasing amount of information about the users. Further, social activities increasingly replace real and personal interactions. Each of such activities leaves an online trace. The current generation of 15 – 19 year olds treats the internet as a natural space of expression. The authors ask if the age group in question views privacy differently than their older friends, investigating whether privacy has already become an anachronistic concept soon to become completely irrelevant, as the fax machine did. A pilot study conducted on a sample of young internet users reveals their attitude to online privacy.

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