DATA PROTECTION LEADERS FOCUS ON SOCIAL- NETWORKING PRIVACY

Data protection authorities from a range of countries held a teleconference to discuss how they can work together to protect what they see as a steady erosion of privacy by social networking services, and the European Union too is studying what role it can play. They may not be able to hold the social networking wave back, but policymakers are looking at what they can do to limit what they see as the “Big Brother”-like role of some sites.
Read the article: http://gigalaw.com/2010/04/22/data-protection-leaders-focus-on-social-networking-privacy/ (Source: Reuters)