As a user of search engines such as Google and Bing, you may knowingly, or unknowingly, have privacy concerns. In his TED Talk, Internet activist Eli Pariser (2011) informs his audience on the issues of privacy, access of information and who controls the direction and movement of online information and how the use of such control may affect democracy and society. For this Discussion, you will view and react to Pariser's TED Talk online.

Reference:

Pariser, E. (2011) What Google and Facebook are hiding [Video, Online]. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP3fsXAADAo (Accessed: 8 August 2014).

To complete this Discussion:

Post: View and discuss Pariser's (2011) TED talk. List your top three concerns regarding privacy in the use of search engines, and explain your rationale for choosing each. Identify the tools, mechanisms and practices are needed to protect privacy when using search engines.