Google says 'Forget it!' to Opt-In p2pnet.net
20.04.10
A third example of data collection and use further complicates the policy landscape. Social networking sites have exploded in recent years and along with them information about individual users.6 None of this information can be said to be anonymous, in fact it might be said to have the strongest identifiability of any online information by virtue of having embedded an identity into a social network.7 The context of this information use is also entirely different: social networking sites are not just collecting information from a user and using that information to target an advertisement or provide a generic service. These sites by definition enable information about an individual to be made available to other users with ease. The first privacy questions we ask are identical to those asked of advertising networks: to whom is the information collected anonymous, and what degree of customised services is provided? But an additional set of privacy questions is raised by these services: how
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