This area may be under video surveillance...
Nothing can be hidden on the Internet. As time went by, it became one of its fundamentals. It means that everybody can easily see everything that you do on your blog, Flickr, Youtube and social networks like Myspace or Facebook which make it possible to know all about anybody’s life, from the name of the company he works for to the last time he was drunk in a nightclub. That’s why I’m not a huge fan of Facebook for instance. When someone tags me in a picture, he gives without my consent some details from my private life. Facebook pretends to offer sophisticated privacy controls so that information that has been made private by a user will stay hidden. Ok then. But in an article entitled "Marc L***", the excellent French magazine Le Tigre managed to draw precisely the portrait of a webnaut just by piecing together several pieces of information scattered on the Internet. The article, which made a huge buzz in France, wanted to warn us about the transparency of our lives on the web and to point out the dangers of publicizing personal information. On the Internet which tends to blur the boundaries between private and public, anonymity is nothing else than a myth.
You can read the article (in French) here.
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