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European studies and reports on social networking
How do youngsters use the safety settings of social networking sites?
- Launched by: European Commission
- Purpose: gather knowledge on how youngsters use the safety settings of social networking sites.
- Results
March 2009 - Young People and Emerging Digital Services: An Exploratory Survey on Motivations, Perceptions and Acceptance of Risks
- Launched by: European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
- Purpose: this survey has a twofold objective: identifying young people’s perception of the risks that the new eID technologies may pose and young people’s acceptance levels of these risks, and their general motivation and intent regarding the use of these new technologies
- Results
July 2008 – Public consultation on social networks
- Launched by: European Commission
- Purpose: gather the knowledge and views of all relevant stakeholders (including public bodies, child safety and consumer organisations, industry). The gathered information was fed into the 2008 edition of the Safer Internet Forum, which had a session dedicated to social networking.
- Results
October 2007 – Report on security issues and recommendations for online social networks
- Launched by: European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA)
- Purpose: The objective of this report is to highlight and address privacy and security risks associated with Social networking sites.
- Results: read the full report