How to safeguard privacy on Facebook
The owners of online networking sites generally have access to the personal information of the users on their sites, which can lead to privacy problems.
To deal with it Landon Cox, a Duke University assistant professor of computer science, has been funded by the National Science Foundation. The professor emphasised on the lack of power in the hands of netizens who use social networking sites like Facebook to communicate and share data.
He said, "My concern is that they're under the control of a central entity. The social networks currently control all the information that users throw into them. I don't think that's necessarily evil. But it raises some concerns.
