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"Whenever some agency creates a site aimed at young people, you can be absolutely sure that kids will a) never ever visit it and b) if they do visit it, they'll laugh at it. This will probably be the case with ICO (Information Commissioner's Office) and their site which should explain UK kids that MySpace data is not private, and that it can be stolen and misused which can hurt them in the long run.\nAlthough the site looks boring as hell and no youngster will care what it says, the message it sends is painfully true. Kids are taking MySpace way too seriously these days, and furthermore they don't really consider the fact that sharing their personal data online might not be the smartest thing to do.\nA survey among people aged 14 to 21, has shown that 60% of youngsters aren't aware that their personal data could turn up in online searches, although 70% of them would not want a potential employer or a university to find this information. Furthermore, two thirds of users surveyed accept people they've never met as friends, and 70% aren't really thinking about the consequences of giving personal data to total strangers. \nICO's site lists certain guidelines to keep your private data safe, but this initiative would probably work a whole lot better if it were somehow integrated directly into MySpace; I'm not sure that images of happy kids looking at computer screens are enough to make young people take notice and actually read this info thoroughly.\n\n\n\n\n[via MacWorld]\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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