The segment I will summarize is about Europe’s privacy laws and their effect on Facebook. The story talked about a man in Austria named Matt Shrims, who found over a thousand pages worth of data on himself. This launched an investigation on Facebook into what exactly they do with the data of each user. Under European law, each user should be in control of their data and know what is being done with it; therefore, Facebook is supposed to reveal exactly that. The reporter on the story, Christopher Worth, said that it shouldn’t be counted on that Facebook will do that.
This story is important to us because it shows exactly what is happening to our data as well. The U.S. doesn’t have as strict laws on Facebook as Europe does and that could be a very bad thing. So we should care about this because our data is being kept and could potentially lead to dangerous situations. Matt Shrims said that within the stacks of paper that he found on himself were coordinates of the computer he used. This is crazy! For our safety, our locations should not be kept. If there is no danger, we still have a right to our privacy of location and that should not be given to a worldwide social network
This relates to the first segment, in the sense of having information available in the good way. The segment talked about when people in Syria used Facebook to get any news about the troubles they faced. This was when the Syrian government and activists were clashing.
Another segment that relates is the third segment about Facebook China, where it is blocked. This was because the government was scared that their people would use Facebook to cause unrest. Still, there are other social websites that are much like Facebook that they use. This segment relates by the power that Facebook has in being a vessel of voice for people to get information out.
