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Social Network Site Privacy: A Comparative Analysis of Six Sites

Posted on September 26, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Research by Jennifer Barrigar for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada compares Facebook, Hi5, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, MySpace, and Skyrock. This report was prepared for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner by Jennifer Barrigar, a consultant and researcher with experience in both privacy law and developments in internet technology. It was originally commissioned in…

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Project ‘Gaydar’

Posted on September 21, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Carolyn Y. Johnson reports: It started as a simple term project for an MIT class on ethics and law on the electronic frontier. Two students partnered up to take on the latest Internet fad: the online social networks that were exploding into the mainstream. With people signing up in droves to reconnect with classmates and…

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Plaxo revises privacy policy

Posted on September 5, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Plaxo‘s privacy policies are changing. According to a notice on their site, their privacy policy will be changing on October 6.  They explain: Just as today we allow folks to sign up and sign in to Plaxo using identities from external websites, later this year we will allow you to sign up or sign in…

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Social networks leak personal information

Posted on August 24, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Online social networking sites leak personal information, a new study has found, raising the possibility that users of such sites can be tracked everywhere they go online. The study, “On the Leakage of Personally Identifiable Information Via Online Social Networks,” was co-authored by Balachander Krishnamurthy, a researcher at AT&T Labs and Craig E. Wills, a…

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