Online privacy needs more visibility and examples

As Joanna Geary found out:

However, I also knew it would be the perfect opportunity to gauge just how aware a group of bright, 16 and 17-year-olds were on the issues of web privacy and of just how easy it is to track down information about people online. The case study I included shocked them, especially when it came to Facebook privacy.

…and which is now being rapidly re-blogged around all the UK newspaper websites and journalists. The point of course is not to educate the newsrooms, but to educate the users. But with so much online, I can’t see how this can be slowed down – especially when new sites like Flup give you shiny achievement profile badges when you link up friends and family!