Last week, Ryan Pittington talked about the new trend among aspiring and established authors alike to use Twitter as a means of staying connected, not only to other writers, but to potential readers. What should one tweet? Where do we draw the line between privacy and exposure? It seems the internet knows more about you than your tweets, and much more than you may think. NPR’s Fresh Air reports on just how exposed we have become. Here is what investigative reporter Julie Angwin has to say about what data brokers know about her based off of her internet habits:
What was shocking about it was that it ranged from incredibly precise — every single address I’d ever lived at including the number on my dorm room in college, which I couldn’t even remember … to very imprecise, inaccurate things … that were not at all true — that I was a single mother … with no college education living in a place I didn’t live.
