Forum: Online friends at what price?
                   
sacbee.com     Jul 20, 2008            

The point of social networking is to share your personal information with the world By Marc Rotenberg - Special to The Bee Published 12:00 am PDT Sunday, July 20, 2008 Story appeared in FORUM section, Page E4 Many of my friends were surprised when I signed up for Facebook. "Why would a privacy advocate put personal information online?" they asked. "For the same reason that people use the Internet for e-mail or pick up a telephone to make a call," I explained. "It's very useful. Of course, there are real privacy issues. We should understand them and fix them." Today Facebook is both very useful and a genuine privacy threat. At No. 5 on the Alexa list of most popular Web sites in the United States, it is closing in quickly on its rival MySpace. And, as the commercial use of the network has increased, so too have the privacy... [read full story]                    


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redorbit.com     Aug 9, 2008   5 related          

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Beijing Olympics visitors tracked by massive Big Brother surveillance network

aftermathnews.wordpress.com     Aug 8, 2008   1,855 related          

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abc4.com     Aug 7, 2008          

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