Consumer Reports Roundtable: Who's To Blame For Rising Privacy Problems on Social Networks?

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.

At first glance, the statistics were alarming. In 2012, 7 million Facebook users reported bad experiences ranging from having other people log into their accounts without their permission to receiving threats – a figure that had gone up 30 percent from last year.

There

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