How can privacy advocates leverage social networks for activism online and off? Activists from Facebook Protest, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, and Get FISA Right will describe successful recent campaigns and strategies for the future.

Su función es velar por el cumplimiento de la legislación sobre protección de datos y controlar su aplicación, en especial en lo relativo a los derechos de información, acceso, rectificación, oposición y cancelación de datos.

Companies are using facebook to find you! Something we all probably knew but this continues to prove- be careful what you put on the internet. Companies are prowling, and many users are electing to change their name or identity. Some people disagree strongly with this practice, stating that facebook is too much of a personal invasion.

If a stranger came up to you on the street, would you give him your name, Social Security number and e-mail address? Probably not. Yet people often dole out all kinds of personal information on the Internet that allows such identifying data to be deduced.

The fault, dear Reader, is not in our stars; it lies with sites that pretend to waive all care and duty by idly warning their users not to share their account passwords with anyone else.