Although investigators and the press highlighted certain titles that added to the titillation they were trying to create, Monica's complaint was that she was more than those isolated titles. She had also read other books, and the picture the investigators drew of her was inaccurate. Rosen goes on to point out that this is the danger of online invasions into our private lives. The alternative is to let people think that you are nothing more than those isolated facts that are clipped and pasted together. In this process, what you end up with is a caricature, one of those quirky drawings that depicts a people but emphasizes some characteristic out of proportion to their other features.
Caricatures can sometimes be cute and harmless.
But having once been a subject of one, I can tell you that the result is rarely flattering. We don't reduce their very complex personalities into one obscure and discrete fact about them. This reduction of a personality is the prime danger of online data collection. We have to steer a course between two equally distasteful possibilities. Either people will know too little about us and construct an incomplete and unfair caricature, or they will know too much and leave us with no privacy at all.