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18- to 24-year-olds most at risk for ID theft, survey finds

Allison Klein, Washington Post

Mar 17, 2010

Mary Madden, senior research specialist at the Pew Research Center's Internet and & American Life Project, said 72 percent of millennials use social networking sites daily, compared with 40 percent of adults 30 or older.

She said young people shar...

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Is Internet privacy dead? No, just more complicated

Cecilia Kang, Washington Post | Post Tech

Mar 15, 2010

Mary Madden, a senior researcher at the Pew Center’s Internet & American Life Project, said with social networking becoming mainstream, there are bound to be missteps by Web sites that will challenge users’ views of privacy online.

In a study to b...

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Google tweaks Buzz social hub after privacy woes

Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press

Feb 12, 2010

Privacy concerns intensify when Web sites get social because people want control over what information they share, and with whom. Or at least they say they do, according to surveys by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Their actions, howeve...

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Privacy 2.0

The Economist

Jan 28, 2010

IF THERE is one thing that could halt the ascent of social networks, it is the vexed question of privacy. This is controversial because it goes right to the heart of the social-networking business model. In order to attract users, sites need to offer...

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Breaking Up in a Digital Fishbowl

Laura M. Holson, New York Times

Jan 6, 2010

One byproduct of the digital revolution is that trust is being assigned new meaning. According to the Internet and American Life Project at the Pew Research Center, one in five teenagers polled shares online passwords as a way to build trust and fost...

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Text Messages: Digital Lipstick on the Collar

Laura M. Holson, New York Times

Dec 8, 2009

Text messages are the new lipstick on the collar, the mislaid credit card bill. Instantaneous and seemingly casual, they can be confirmation of a clandestine affair, a record of the not-so-discreet who sometimes forget that everything digital leaves ...

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Facebook 'suck sites' to be tested in court

Vikki Ortiz Healy, Chicago Tribune

Sep 20, 2009

A beauty school student thought he was offering classmates a place to vent when he created a Facebook page mocking teachers and classes.

"Don't be afraid to post comments on whats going on, this is yor voice too. All for one and one for all right?...

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Photos of mullets, leotards return to haunt online

Suzanne Ma, Associated Press

Sep 17, 2009

NEW YORK (AP) — Matching mullets, regrettable tattoos, metal mouths and goofy grins.

Such long-lost looks were never meant to be seen by anyone except those flipping through the pages of an old family album or studying the photo frames on the fir...

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Gotcha! Why Online Anonymity May Be Fading

Kevin Whitelaw, NPR

Sep 2, 2009

Some of the change is cultural. Users have been flocking to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, where they voluntarily share all kinds of details about their lives.

In some ways, the meteoric success of these sites could be a reacti...

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Doctors' Digital Footprints

Jul 18, 2008Susannah Fox

A recent JAMA article warns doctors to follow their own digital footprints since patients may be doing so already. But is searching for information about a doctor so different from searching for information about a neighbor, classmate, or colleague?

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