THE FACES OF SELF IN THE PUBLIC MIRROR
Which is the meaning of the right to own image of a person in the present day “image society”? How much is still private and how the legal protection is assured? How to keep the balance between the desire of privacy and the right to free information based on public (or private) interest? These are only few questions that I intend to answer from a human rights perspective.
Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm
A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites.





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The Meaning of Reputation in American Society
Yet reputation by its very nature is indelibly social. Indeed, reputation derives from the fundamental act of recognition in which the individual moves beyond interest and need and, in the words of George Herbert Mead, takes the role of the other.2 The infant who, for the first time, takes the spoon from his mother and tries to feed her is recognizing her as a person like himself and responding to her recognition of him. Recognition may be a psychological need, but it is not only that. Recognition is what makes society possible. Reputation is the extension and elaboration of that recognition which lies at the basis of our social existence. Thus, although we think of a person as "having" a reputation, reputation is not a property or possession of individuals-it is a relation between persons. Our tendency to think of reputation in individualistic terms is rooted in our cultural emphasis on the autonomy, independence, and achievements of individuals. In Chapter 3 of Habits of the Heart3 we describe in some detail our understanding of the life course in American middle-class culture, remembering that American culture is quintessentially middle-class. In this perspective life appears a search for ever greater autonomy and fulfillment of the self. In the course of this search it is necessary to leave home, often to leave the community in which one grew up and the church in which one was raised, to go away to college and then to take a job, often a series of jobs, that offers the greatest opportunity for advancement. The successful person is one who has achieved the most on his or her own. This emphasis on personal success