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08:47 22nd June 2010
Web-based companies must instruct their customers on how to protect their privacy, according to Anita Coles, policy officer at Liberty.
"There is an onus on the companies to make sure that they are acting in a way that [ensures] people know what the privacy settings are," Ms Coles said.
She went on to say that web-based services should make such information "very clear and accessible to ensure that [users'] data is made private".
But she warned that businesses are not doing this at the moment.
Ms Coles also said that internet data ownership is something online service providers don't always understand.
Separately, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, and a coalition of other campaign groups sent an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of networking site Facebook, ***delete extra space*** urging him to give users true control over their personal data.
In response to concerns over privacy, Facebook recently said it will introduce simpler and more powerful controls for sharing personal information.
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