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California Senator Ellen Corbett has tabled a bill that would force online services and social networking sites to make the default user settings private (except for the user’s name and city of residence). Users will be forced to choose their privacy settings when they register.  This stands in sharp contrast to the current operating model for these sites—much evangelized by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg—which makes nearly all personal information public by default.  If you want to limit access to your information, you need to find the correct settings and secure yourself.  As you’ might suspect, the major social networking sites have banded together to challenge the bill.  So now, what do Google, Facebook, Skype, and Twitter have to do with Prussian Law?  I’m glad you asked.