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207 their Facebook accounts so that private sites can also be accessed
Mich.e.l.le Singletary, ”Would You Give Potential Employers Your Facebook Pa.s.sword?,” Was.h.i.+ngton Post, March 29, 2012.
208 policy is to never give out such pa.s.swords
Joanna Stern, ”Demanding Facebook Pa.s.swords May Break Law, Say Senators,” ABC News, March 26, 2012, abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebook-pa.s.swords-employers-schools-demand-access-facebook-senators/story?id=16005565#.UCPKWY40jdk.
209 many employees have been subjected to cybersurveillance
Tam Harbert, ”Employee Monitoring: When IT Is Asked to Spy,” Computer World, June 16, 2010.
210 especially the Internet, increases exponentially as more people connect to it
James Hendler and Jennifer Golbeck, ”Metcalfe's Law, Web 2.0, and the Semantic Web,” Web Semantics 6, no. 1 (February, 2008): 1420.
211 actually increases as the square of the number of people who connect to it
Ibid.
212 options for changing settings that some sites offer
Alexis Madrigal, ”Reading the Privacy Policies You Encounter in a Year Would Take 76 Work Days,” Atlantic, March 1, 2012; Elaine Rigoli, ”Most People Worried About Online Privacy, Personal Data, Employer Bias, Privacy Policies,” Consumer Reports, April 25, 2012.
213 But users who try to opt out of the tracking itself
Julia Angwin and Emily Steel, ”Web's Hot New Commodity: Privacy,” Wall Street Journal, February 28, 2011.
214 due to persistent lobbying pressure from the advertising industry
Tanzina Vega, ”Opt-Out Provision Would Halt Some, but Not All, Web Tracking,” New York Times, February 26, 2012; Madrigal, ”I'm Being Followed.”
215 but there are so many clicks that billions of dollars are at stake
Madrigal, ”I'm Being Followed”; Vega, ”Opt-Out Provision Would Halt Some, but Not All, Web Tracking.”