How Twitter and Facebook expose children to websites for prostitutes: Vice-girl ads are illegal in phone boxes, so why not social media?

'There is a real risk that children, who are great users of Facebook, will stumble across these pages accidentally,' says Pippa Smith, co-chairman of Safermedia, which campaigns for a family-friendly internet.

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Study: Private Data Revealed by Facebook 'Likes'

There's more to those Facebook 'likes' than what meets the eye. Research released Monday shows patterns from these Facebook preferences can provide surprisingly accurate estimates of the user's race, age, IQ, sexuality and other personal information. The researchers developed an algorithm which uses Facebook likes -- which are publicly available unless a user chooses stronger privacy settings -- to create personality profiles, potentially revealing ...

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