NEW YORK: Consumer Reports’ Kevin McKean shared a few statistics from the company’s annual report on Internet privacy and security at a roundtable discussion held at NYU on Thursday night. Shortly thereafter, a panel of experts wondered aloud whether the privacy controls belong on the social networks or on the people who use them.
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ESPN journalist Erin Andrews didn’t plan on becoming an advocate for stricter Internet security.
Then again, she never expected to be filmed in the privacy of her hotel room, either, by a complete stranger, who was holding a cell phone up to a peep hole, in the sick hope she’d walk by. (It was later discovered he had been stalking her and had creepily caught 14 additional women on tape).
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You wouldn’t know it by looking at the average teenager’s wall on Facebook, but teens are just as concerned as their parents when it comes to online privacy, a new poll has found. 79 percent of teens believe their friends share too much information online, and a majority want social networking sites required to get users to ‘opt-in’ before using their personal information. But parents haven’t stopped worrying about their kids’ safety either.
