Experts: Web Generation Clueless About Online Privacy

Source: 
Security News Daily, February 22, 2011


Last April Fool's Day, the online game store Gamestation.co.uk created a customer license agreement that asked gamers for their immortal souls. About 7,500 gamers unthinkingly clicked the "agree" button without reading the devilishly fine print.

The gamers kept their souls, but plenty of netizens have clicked "I agree" to download a new music service,software update or game demo without realizing that they had agreed to let the service provider access their personal information. Many more don't bother to figure out how to update their ever-changing privacy settings on social networks such as Facebook.

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