Monday, November 26, 2007

ICO Warns Kids About Social Networks’ Side Effects

by Anne Shaw

On Friday, a British privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office, announced the findings of a recent survey...



Surprisingly or not, more than 70 percent of people aged 14 to 21 would not want a potential employer to read the information they posted on a social networking web site, while more than 60 percent of them do not think that this information could be “found” by the online search engines. What’s probably even more risky is that young Internet users accept persons they do not know to become their “virtual friends”; no less than 70 percent of young people seem not to be concerned of strangers seeing the information they posted.

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