] In general, people would be well-advised firstly to stay
] well clear of all address-book and 'social networking
] systems', and secondly to prevail upon their friends,
] colleagues and acquaintances that they should avoid
] making any data about them available to service-operators
] like Plaxo.
]
] There are two qualifications to that general statement.
] Firstly, a service that was subject to reasonable data
] protection laws would be less objectionable than services
] located in the U.S.A. or other havens such as Australia
] or a third world country. Secondly, it is feasible to
] design a privacy-sensitive address-book service or social
] networking service. Unfortunately, none of the services
] referred to in this paper have demonstrated sufficient
] understanding of the issues to suggest that they could
] mature in that direction.

On the privacy of social networking sites