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I was at a conference at Google not long ago, and the head of public policy, said he expected that before long, Google and Facebook will be asked to post online live feeds to all the public and private surveillance cameras in the world, including mobile cameras mounted on drones. Imagine that Facebook responds to public pressure and decides to post live feeds, so they can be searched online, as well as archiving the video in the digital cloud.

Now that we’re living most of our lives online, all of us are vulnerable to the internet. The difficulty with young people is that they may not have experienced the dangers of not being able to escape your past until it’s too late. I like to tell the story of Stacy Sneider, the young 22 year old teacher in training who posted a picture of herself on Myspace wearing a pirate’s hat and drinking from a plastic cup that said drunken pirate. Her supervisor at the school said she was promoting drinking and she was fired. She sued and was unable to get her job back and she had to pick an entirely different career. That’s a very dramatic example on how vulnerable all of us are to being judged out of context by a single image or ill chosen picture and once you do that it may be very hard to escape your past.

Antonio A. Casilli, sociologue, est chercheur au Centre Edgar-Morin de l'EHESS (Paris), où il enseigne la socio-anthropologie des usages numériques. Il vient de publier Les Liaisons numériques, ouvrage riche et surprenant qui met à mal le mythe de la réalité virtuelle désincarnée et désocialisante et montre qu'Internet offre des modalités neuves et fécondes du lien social. Ce texte a été écrit à l'occasion d'une rencontre organisée par la Villa Gillet autour de la "Web culture : nouveaux modes de connaissance, nouvelles sociabilités".