Irish Press media privacy warnings Facebook and Twitter

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Privacy warnings about the internet, Facebook and Twitter
This should be a subject in Schools, starting in primary school. Don't you find it a bit sick, and very sad that young children are on any website. Infants in their spare time should be outside playing with real friends.
Irish teenagers are a real problem already, when they are not texting each other, they seem to live on Facebook. Teenage years are difficult at the best of time, but isolated in a virtual world of virtual friends is going to magnify problems.
These poor children with parents and sometimes even daft grandparents who live on the internet, what sort of society are they encouraging.

At least some are trying to send warnings, Young web users warned over details they post online
The Press Ombudsman has warned young people that material they publish on social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter could be accessed and used by journalists.
Professor John Horgan said the details they post about themselves online was unlikely to be protected by any privacy rules.
Speaking at the publication of the annual reports of both his office and the Press Council yesterday, Prof Horgan said many such website users failed to activate any security measures to prevent general access to personal information.
As a result, he warned few would be likely to successfully complain that newspapers should not be able to access such information.
In his annual report, Prof Horgan said that blogs featured prominently in articles that were the subject of two complaints last year.
"Both of these complaints, and their outcomes, underline the risks run by members of the public who blithely put material into the public domain, heedless of the potential consequences of media interest in their activities," said Prof Horgan. "The web is, by and large, rarely a private space."
Mr Horgan said the number of complaints to the Office of the Press Ombudsman in 2010 at 315 was largely unchanged from previous years. They resulted in 53 complaints being subject to a formal investigation, of which 34% were upheld. The majority of cases related to issues concerning accuracy and privacy.

The chairman of the Press Council, Daithí Ó Ceallaigh, expressed hope that web-based publications would in time come to see the value of quality control and best professional practice. Mr Ó Ceallaigh said the traditional press now had an independent regulatory system which is wholly absent for the internet.
Mr Ó Ceallaigh said there was evidence to suggest the establishment of such a system had already resolved complaints which would in the past have ended up in the courts.

Big hand and well done to those who managed this Irish forum in the past. I lke the way that no one (who was not a member) can freely access any profile, and emails were hidden. You were way ahead of the time. I trust the new managers will continue with this automatic respect of Irish people.
Those Irish who think that people care about them on some of these other Irish sites are very naive.

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