Sharing
information on internet is not a big deal today when you have
youtube,facebook and a lots of other community websites where you can
meet other people and share your personal information but sometime
sharing personal and confidentialinformation can be dangerous in an
era where everybody is trying to save him/her self from theft,
internet frauds and many other types of hacking and cracking tricks.
There are lot of hacker are sitting out there and looking for your
personal information to make you money less.
There will be no
use of crying over spilt milk. I am sharing this information with you
guys. I hope this video will help a lot of people to rethink about
their community oninternet.
Dangers of
Information Sharing on Internet
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Today, Safer
Internet Day, the European Commission is passing a message to
teenagers: "Think before you post!" It welcomed actions to
protect children using social networking websites taken by the 20
companies who signed the Safer Social Networking Principles last
year. Most of these companies have empowered minors to tackle online
risks by making it easier to change privacy settings, block users or
delete unwanted comments and content. Yet more needs to be done to
protect children online, the Commission says. Less than half of
social networking companies (40%) make profiles of under-18 users
visible only to their friends by default and only one third replied
to user reports asking for help.
“If
we want children to think before they post, social networking
companies should post the right information using the right language.
Last year the European Commission urged companies to act, and I am
glad that many have heeded this call," said EU Commissioner for
Information Society and Media, Viviane Reding. "However I expect
all companies to do more. Minors' profiles need to be set to private
by default and questions or abuse reports have to receive quick and
appropriate responses. The internet is now vital to our children, and
it is the responsibility of all to make it safe.”
At last year's
Safer Internet Day, social networking companies recognised the need
for young users – and their parents – to feel safe when
socializing online and signed the Safer Social Networking Principles.
These resulted from discussions set up by the European Commission in
April 2008 with social networking sites, NGOs and researchers. 18
companies signed the Safer Social Networking Principles in February
2009 and were joined by another two in June 2009.
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One year on, the
Commission has published a report on the implementation of the
Principles on the 25 sites run by the signatories – Arto, Bebo,
Dailymotion, Facebook, Giovani.it, YouTube, Hyves, Windows Live,
Xboxlive, Myspace, Nasza-klaza.pl, Netlog, One.lt, Piczo, Rate.ee,
Skyrock, SchülerVZ StudiVZ MeinVZ, Habbo, IRC Galleria, Tuenti,
Yahoo!Answers, Flickr, and Zap.lu.
Findings
show that 19 out of 23 sites provide safety tips and information
specifically targeted towards children and/or teenagers (this measure
is non applicable for 2 services). This information is both easy to
find and easy to understand on 14 sites: YouTube, Habbo Hotel, Hyves,
IRC Galleria, MySpace, nasza-klasa, Netlog, One, Rate, SchülerVZ,
Skyrock, Yahoo!Answers, Yahoo!Flickr, Zap.
The report also
shows that most of the companies empower minors to deal with
potential online risks and employ a safe approach to privacy by:
Making it easy for
users to block other users and remove comments from their profiles;
Making privacy
options easy to change so that users can choose whether only their
friends or the entire world can see what they post online;
Giving users
control over the display of their online status (which allows other
users to see whether they are online or not).
However, there has
been less systematic implementation of other equally important
measures designed to protect privacy:
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40% of social
networking sites assessed make minors’ personal information visible
only by their friends by default including: SchülerVZ, Facebook,
Tuenti, Giovani, Flickr, Yahoo Answers, One, Habbo, Windows Live and
MySpace
Only
11 out of 22 make it impossible for the private profiles of minors to
be found through search engines including: Arto, Bebo, Facebook,
YouTube, MySpace, Piczo, SchülerVZ, Windows Live, Yahoo! Answers,
Yahoo!Flickr and Zap
While 19 sites out
of 25 have a link for reports available at all times, only 9 (out of
22) responded to complaints submitted during the assessment
including: Arto, Dailymotion, YouTube, Habbo Hotel, Hyves, IRC
Galleria, MySpace, Rate, Windows Live. There is therefore an urgent
need for better services to respond to users' reports asking for
help.
