I think this article is a bit alarmist, because most kids are probably safe. BUT, there is so much 'leaked' data about most of us that it's a little bit scary

I think this article is a bit alarmist, because most kids are probably safe. BUT, there is so much 'leaked' data about most of us that it's a little bit scary about the long term consequences. I'm not worried about the random individual who can look me up, correlate all my identities, look at where I've been in the past, etc. I'm more concerned about the institutions and governments who are building sophisticated dossiers on every person and correlating it with 'suspicious behavior'. We all know that this is happening right now, and the technology is getting more sophisticated, because we're partly building it. Oracle and IBM aren't selling their petabyte clusters to the creepy guy down the street, they're selling them to government agencies and mega-corps. This is all going to continue to get more scary until we wise up and pass regulations and personal-data ownership laws. (Yes, I said the big 'R' and 'L' words. Sorry, I'm not as libertarian as is considered cool these days.)