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[ NNSquad ] Important Study (Columbia U.): Failure of Online Social Network Privacy Settings 

Important Study (Columbia U.): Failure of Online Social Network
Privacy Settings

http://j.mp/ejLN9P  (Columbia [PDF])

     Our results indicate a serious mismatch: every one of the 65
     participants in our study confirmed that at least one of the identified
     violations was in fact a sharing violation. In other words, OSN users'
     privacy settings are incorrect. Furthermore, a majority of users
     cannot or will not fix such errors. We conclude that the current
     approach to privacy settings is fundamentally flawed and cannot be fixed;
     a fundamentally different approach is needed.

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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
Founder:
 - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
 - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
 - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
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