Defending Your Privacy: Which Social Networking Sites Are Secure?

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Deciding which social networking sites to avoid or use can be a challenge. Discovering what privacy settings they have, or don’t have, can be even more cumbersome. Here, we rank eight of the most popular social networking sites according to their privacy and look at some of the most famous security attacks from 2010.

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  1. Aguadze Isaac Kwasi Mawunya ON

    Most service providers might have some workers tempering with unsuspecting client’s privacy.

  2. J-Wo ON

    Nice Infographic. It speaks volumes that none are rated below 2.5 stars. It goes to show that priavcy is important to users of these sites and if the security fails, so does the site.

  3. Good report. nicely pointed out the Security Attacks incident.

  4. facebook is more secure social networking site. I have too develop the social networking site speaksomething better than other sites.

  5. Kiss Csaba ON

    Every social network have unsecurity in the internet.

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