Report: Facebook Users Negligent About Privacy

Despite efforts by Facebook to raise awareness, nearly 13 million of the 183 million users of the social network in the U.S. and Canada either have not accessed or are not aware of its privacy controls, according to a new study by Consumer Reports.

Despite efforts by Facebook to raise awareness, nearly 13 million of the 183 million users of the social network in the U.S. and Canada either have not accessed or are not aware of its privacy controls, according to a new study by Consumer Reports.

However, the results should be taken with a grain of salt, as the magazine used a survey of 2,002 people 18 and older and called that total “nationally representative of Internet households.”

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