Facebook, Twitter Get 'F' for Online Security

The overachieving, uber-smart techies who created Twitter and Facebook are probably not used to seeing this on their transcript: a big, fat ‘F.’ But that’s exactly the grade both social networking sites received for protecting users’ privacy in a new online security report card.

The failing grades were given to the two sites in the “Online Services Security Report Card” created by Digital Society, a “digital think tank.”

The Society examined major sites like eBay, Flickr, Google, Amazon,

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