In other words, users talk the talk about privacy, but they don't change their behavior.

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Sometimes when I talk about the erosion of privacy, I suggest that always being watched forces us to conform to expected societal norms, lest our bad behavior be judged.

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The grand finale of the hour-long talk was, of course, privacy.

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We wanted to talk to Christopher Soghoian, the privacy expert who first uncovered this program, to ask him what he thinks Americans should be worried about, and what they should do to protect their financial privacy.

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Cook, 25, dropped by CNN's New York offices (with his mother, Beth Foraker, in tow) to talk about keeping creative control, losing his privacy and his responsibility as Idol No. 7.

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And in the social age, whenever there's talk of sharing, inevitably the discussion turns to privacy concerns.

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Abortion opponents have also realized the power of the billboard, and the privacy lines they keep crossing guarantee that their billboards become the talk of the town (and the country).

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Over the years, some bullpen denizens have groused about a lack of privacy that forces them to retreat outside with a cellphone to talk to a spouse or have a confidential conversation with someone else in government.

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Ken Goldstein, the worldwide media liability expert at Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, says that all companies should have a policy in place for how their employers can talk about the company on social media, and that they should be training employees to understand defamation, privacy, and intellectual property.

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