Today, 0ur information has huge economic value and Facebook is aware of the fact. In an article published in The Nation, it is stated that "Facebook’s 58 million active members have posted more than 2.7 billion photos, with more than 2.2 billion digital labels of people in the pictures. But what many users may not realize is that the company owns every photo. In fact, everything that people post is automatically licensed to Facebook for its perpetual and transferable use, distribution or public display. The terms of use reserve the right to grant and sublicense all 'user content' posted on the site to other businesses."
OK so...although I should technically know this, due to the fact that I, at some point, accepted the "terms and conditions" on Facebook. I can say that this information still shocks me. When I post photos of my family vacations or nights out with my friends, I do not consider surveillance and data gathering. However, If everything I post is subject to distribution, then it seems that perhaps I am safer when accepting a random invite from somebody that recognizes me from the hallways at cap, then from companys that want to turn my information into a number. The idea that my information is leading to profit gain for some cooperation that I have never heard of makes me feel watched. Lyon states that "info societies are also surveillance societies". Is it not possible to have one without the other?
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