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I wish I could copy and paste Tim Cook’s entire article from THE CANADIAN PRESS here but I respect copyright far too strongly to do that, so instead you’ll have to be content with a link to the article and a short excerpt below.

Canada’s privacy watchdogs want young people to be more aware of where their personal information goes when they punch it into websites such as Facebook or MySpace.

While subjects such as online predation, cyber stalking and cyber bullying have received a lot of attention, youths are often naive about the commercial interest in the personal information they release online, said Saskatchewan privacy commissioner Gary Dickson.

I think, personally, I may be in a minority when I say that I think many young people are aware of the risks but simply consider using tools like social networks to share information with friends to be worth the risk. I think that if easy to use tools were available to filter who can access their info that they would employ them. I guess that’s why I work here!