The Daily Californian, April 9, 2010 by Katrina Escudero
http://www.dailycal.org/article/108991/concerns_persist_after_facebook_settlement
“Consumer privacy issues have taken on a new importance with the rise of social networking,” Hoofnagle said. “The problem is that existing regulatory structures are convinced that privacy issues are institutional. We think of entities such as phone companies as the privacy threat, but with social networking, we are the threat because we reveal too much.”
“What we have to worry about is search histories, pictures and documents that can easily get linked to your e-mail account,” Lynch said. “That info can be used by Google to market you personally, but more importantly, if the U.S. government requested that information from Google, they could easily be granted access to it.”