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Why put your personal info online?

By Niall Firth

21 September 2011

WHEN writer Jeff Jarvis decided to tell the world about his prostate cancer he didn’t spare the gory details: he happily blogged about his “malfunctioning penis” after surgery, and the adult diaper he had to wear.

Too much information, some may say. Not for Jarvis. He is an outspoken advocate for living one’s digital life in the open and his latest book, Public Parts, is one of the first to analyse the shift towards more transparency thanks to Facebook, Twitter and the other big names of this new digital age.

How do we define what is public and what is…

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