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Teens care about privacy online

Brooke Gladstone, NPR's On the Media

Dec 3, 2011

(Click here to listen.) Teenagers are often considered careless when it comes to what they post online, but a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and America...

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Parting with privacy with a quick click

Cecilia Kang, Washington Post

May 8, 2011

When Scott Fitzsimones turned 13, he got an iPhone, set up accounts for Facebook and Pandora and went on an apps downloading spree. At the same time, the new teenager lost many protections over his privacy online.

The games he plays know his locat...

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Online photos: Are they the new digital fingerprint?

Mark Milian, CNN

Apr 8, 2011

More than half of people online have uploaded photos to be shared with others, according to a study from the Pew Research Center for a report that hasn't yet been published. It was 55% in November, up from 46% in July 2008, Pew's studies found.

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Online sharing: The rock 'n' roll of the digital generation?

Doug Gross, CNN

Dec 15, 2010

To be sure, concerns about how much personal information can be accessed on the Web are real, as advertisers, social-networking sites and even criminals look for data to use -- and sometimes abuse.

But research from Pew Research Center seems to sh...

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The internet and the 'end of privacy'

John D. Sutter, CNN

Dec 13, 2010

[...] There are tools available to internet users who would like to protect some aspects of their online privacy. Users can opt out of tracking by certain marketers, clamp down access to their social networking sites and employ online pseudonyms as a...

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New Facebook privacy tip: 'Super-logoff'

John D. Sutter, CNN

Nov 12, 2010

(CNN) If clamping down the privacy settings on your Facebook page isn't enough to help you sleep at night, take a cue from the youth of America.

Try the "super-logoff."

[...]

A Pew Internet ...

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Tag-Along Marketing

Joshua Brustein, New York Times

Nov 6, 2010

As of August, only 4 percent of American adults who used the Internet also used location-based services, which allow people to “check in” to physical locations via their cellphones to earn coupons or keep up with friends, the Pew Research Center’s In...

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The Many Faces of You

Claire Cain Miller, New York Times

Oct 16, 2010

Meanwhile, people’s offline social lives have evolved to become more segmented and specialized, said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. In recent decades, real-life social networks have changed, he s...

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The Web Means the End of Forgetting

Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times

Jul 19, 2010

But not all Facebook users agree with Zuckerberg. Plenty of anecdotal evidence suggests that young people, having been burned by Facebook (and frustrated by its privacy policy, which at more than 5,000 words is longer than the U.S. Constitution), are...

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Millennials will make online sharing in networks a lifelong habit

Jul 9, 2010Janna Anderson, Lee Rainie

Tech experts generally believe that today’s tech-savvy young people will retain their willingness to share personal information online even as they get older and take on more responsibilities.

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