Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson On Privacy In Public Spaces
Kate Klonick asked her law students at St. John's University to try to identify people they came across in public, based solely on what they said and wore. It was surprisingly easy.
Charlotte Lehman could hear the man reading his credit card number out loud from across the Starbucks.
He was speaking to a companion, but his voice carried over the music to where Lehman sat. Surrounded by a dozen or so people, the speaker also divulged his phone number and home address.
After that, all it took for Lehman to identify him was a quick Google search. She was able to find the man's full name, what he does for a living and his
