Only two social networking sites fully protect minors

ONLY two social networking sites protect the privacy of minors by default, an EU study has shown.

Efforts to cut down on cyber-bullying, abuse and sexual grooming through improving privacy settings have been successful over the past year. But many social networking sites, including the most popular, Facebook, have not taken all the steps necessary to protect young users.

Only Bebo and MySpace among the 14 sites tested for the European Commission automatically prevented young people’s profiles being accessible to users other than their list of friends.