As Digital Natives navigate their lives both online and off they leave behind a multitude of digital tracks.  Young people today are growing up with an unprecedented amount of data being recorded and collected about them. Movements are captured by security cameras in the street, locations are easily tracked via the GPS on cell phones, and youth themselves are sharing details of their private lives with friends, strangers, and service providers through a number of web and mobile technologies.  As young people grown up digital, they are blurring the boundaries public and private.  Do Digital Natives have a fundamentally different approach to privacy?  How does both the physical and online environment impact the ways in which young people think about privacy?  What are the implications of growing up in a society where everything is recorded?  What are the benefits and concerns raised with the emerging "culture of sharing"?  How can education, technical and legal architecture begin to address these issues?

About

Miriam Simun is the research coordinator on the Digital Natives project at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.  Her research interests include emerging social practices with digital media, the role of technical architecture in new modes of social  interaction, and gender online.  Prior to joining Berkman, Miriam conducted research on the social effects of Mp3 player use in urban spaces, and the impact of community leadership programs serving at-risk youth.  She holds a BSc in Sociology with a concentration in Information Communication Technologies from the London School of Economics.