A new bill proposed in California could force Facebook and other social networking sites to strip out personal information for children at a parent's request.
SB 242 -- also known as the Social Networking Privacy Act -- would require Facebook and others to carefully police which pieces of information on individuals under age 18 are accessible to the public. It would also provide a means for concerned parents to demand that a site take down their children's information, or face stiff fines as high as $10,000.
It's all wrapped behind the bill's main provision, which would establish privacy settings when a user first joins the network, rather than somewhere down the line.
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It is called parenting. Why is there a need for a law about this. Children do not have the same rights as adults, period.
Our oldest daughter has a facebook account. We know the password
(as well as the passwords for her email and iPod.) This is not infinging on her privacy, it is parenting. If we see something we don't like, we let her know, or we cut her off from all these devices.
Parents do not need a "bill of rights." They need backbones.
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