Your privacy has become a little riskier in social networking. It became known that MySpace started to sell user data to third parties like academics, marketers, and analysts.

The data will consist of any information or activity that can be found on an account. It is possible to view photos, blog posts, reviews, location, as well as status updates-among others. InfoChimps is one of the companies that offers the data. It is considered to be an Austin, Texas company that gathers and sells structured data.

In fact, MySpace is able to do that, because it is a legal owner of the data and server logs as well. Users refused from their right to privacy but at the same time they get free Web hosting and also access to its social features.

Just about the same type of scenario Eben Moglen, a Columbia University law professor and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center was talking at a seminar about privacy in cloud computing last month.

Moglen asserted the development of peer-to-peer social networks due to which users are able to keep ownership of their data.