Summary of Rita Gunther McGrath's Seeing Around Corners

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#1 Social media platforms had a difficult 2018, and the rise and struggles of Facebook and other social media platforms illustrate the dilemma of seeing the real implications of unfolding inflection points.

#2 The right to privacy with regard to the use of library resources has been affirmed again and again in court cases throughout the years. The risk of librarians being able to tell others about my personal interests was considered so great that it was actually addressed in their code of ethics.

#3 The pre-digital era was rife with information about people, and it was available to third parties with an interest in finding it out. But today, data brokers can combine multiple databases against one another cheaply and at lightning speed.

#4 The average person has no idea that telling any website anything may put that information out there in the public domain. And while users are dimly aware that websites track them using cookies, they do not realize that these cookies are also placed by third parties.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669365587

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Insights on Rita Gunther McGrath's Seeing Around Corners

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Social media platforms had a difficult 2018, and the rise and struggles of Facebook and other social media platforms illustrate the dilemma of seeing the real implications of unfolding inflection points.

#2

The right to privacy with regard to the use of library resources has been affirmed again and again in court cases throughout the years. The risk of librarians being able to tell others about my personal interests was considered so great that it was actually addressed in their code of ethics.

#3

The pre-digital era was rife with information about people, and it was available to third parties with an interest in finding it out. But today, data brokers can combine multiple databases against one another cheaply and at lightning speed.

#4

The average person has no idea that telling any website anything may put that information out there in the public domain. And while users are dimly aware that websites track them using cookies, they do not realize that these cookies are also placed by third parties.

#5

A Wall Street Journal investigation found that health and wellness apps were sharing highly personal information with Facebook. None of these apps provided users any way to stop this information from being sent to Facebook.

#6

The internet is a Wild West when it comes to our privacy, and we can only hope that our information doesn’t leak out to the wrong people. But what about when the rest of our world starts to take on Internet-like tracking.

#7

As an example of the challenges that all the big advertising-supported social media platforms face, let’s take a look at Facebook. The company has grown exponentially, and its influence has been eye-popping. However, its attitude towards its use of personal data has not changed much since the start.

#8

Social media companies face a significant inflection point, with Zuckerberg declaring that his company is at war. Billionaire investor George Soros went so far as to announce at the 2018 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, that Facebook’s days are numbered.

#9

There have been warnings about the potential dangers