My thoughts and opinions are well known when it comes to children using these kinds of services, when adults are allowed to roam free in these virtual worlds… none of our children are safe!!! and for that matter adults as well are not really safe from the luring eyes of predators and pedophiles on these kinds of systems, that have no real control of what is really happening behind the scenes… including losing your privacy!

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Canada’s privacy commissioner is launching an investigation into whether Facebook is breaking the law when it passes on sensitive personal information to advertisers and other profit-making companies without securing meaningful consent. The complaint, filed Friday by law students interning at the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, alleges 21 other violations under Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

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The bank says that benefits of Active Card Control for the client include improved administrative efficiency and lower costs from not having to raise and lower credit limits or change single transaction limits; increased control over purchasing due to a mandatory approval process; reduced paperwork; and ease of implementation as purchase requests can be used with any card program that uses the Works platform.

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For example, a keylogger can easily obtain confidential emails and reveal them to any interested outside party willing to pay for the information.

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It gets worse. People can get your computer’s name and even find out your name if your machine supports programs like finger or identd. Also, cookies can track your habits as you move from machine to machine.

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