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Social Media & Your Privacy

Prospective employers asking for facebook passwords
during interviews, college admissions rejecting applicants because of information found on social networks, marketing companies collecting information about you based on your travels on the Web. Offline, we all have established legal rights — from the right to privacy to the right to a fair trial; but Social Networks are turning those rights upside down.

As many individuals have already learned the hard way, the same power of information sharing that can topple governments can also topple a person’s career, marriage, finances, or even his or her future.

Join Distinguished Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Lori Andrews, on Thursday, April 12, 2012 as she will describe how our digital identities on the Web (email, personal websites, and social media pages) are starting to overshadow our physical identities, and what we can do about it.

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The meet and greet reception begins at 6:30 PM. Presentation starts at 7:00 PM, with a book signing to follow. The event is free; however, advanced registration is requested at www.cpd.iit.edu/speakersseries.

Lori Andrews’ work assesses the social impact of emerging technologies. She directs the Institute for Science, Law and Technology at Illinois Institute of Technology, and is the author of 11 non-fiction books and 3 mystery novels. Her most recent book is I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy.

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