Privacy vs. Exhibitionism: Why Social Media are Dangerous

For insurers who seek business opportunities in the social media sphere, we may easily have the spectacle of a customer who wants his personal information kept private by the insurer on one hand, while the same individual is spewing forth such data indiscriminately elsewhere. If the customer is “exposing” his own information, does that take the insurer off the hook if something bad happens related to that information? These are the kinds of questions that judges and juries will increasingly have to decide as exhibitionism battles privacy in the world of commerce and in the daily lives of many.

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