Privacy Comes to Youth

What's the old cliche? A conservative is a liberal who's grown older? The Chronicle brings us a snippet from a study showing that young adults are beginning to worry about their privacy. Guess all those theories that the transparent world would lead to less concern about what future Senator candidate in 2030 did in 2010 in college because EVERYONE had the same problems might not be as sound as thought.

Two researchers conducted the study that showed 18 and 19 year olds were increasingly worried. They do admit it could be shaded by recent Facebook faux pas. I will interject that one of the duo is a Microsoft Research employee (hmm, fear the Google?).

Nevertheless: Chronicle here; abstract from UIC here; the journal article here.