A new study from TRUSTe shows that 80% of parents and 78% of teens think their information is protected on social networks…although it also shows that 68% of teens have accepted a friend request from someone they don’t know [CNET]
In the wake of yesterday/this past weekend’s latest Facebook privacy revelation, Congressmen Edward Markey and Joe Barton want answers from Facebook on when it happened, how many people were affected and how to fix it… [PC World]
But if they want to answer that last question, perhaps they would be interested in this video from those who revealed the “breach,” the Wall Street Journal [WSJ]
Either way, Facebook has vowed to “fix” this privacy problem, though it says it “will be a challenge” [NY Times]
And it disabled the offending apps in the meantime, including probably the most popular Facebook game, Farmville [USA Today]
While Rapleaf was one of the indicated beneficiaries of the Facebook privacy “breach,” apparently it doesn’t even need the revealed user IDs to construct a picture of a user, just an email address [GigaOm]
A NY judge has ruled that Google must reveal the identity of an “anonymous” (technically, psuedononymous…if that’s even a word) commenter who called a woman appearing in some of Columbia University’s YouTube videos a “whore” [Salon]
And finally, just now is the Spanish Data Protection Authority suing Google over its personal data collection fiasco of this past summer… [AFP]
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