Echoing Larry Magid, Symons believed that the rare threat of sexual predators had, in some ways, obscured the more common problem of kids' indiscreetly publishing personal information on the Web.

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But the power of the Web, with its ability to search, index and classify information without constraints on format and publishing privileges, can also be a great democratizer, says Scott Yara, co-founder of Greenplum, now part of EMC, where Yara is vice president of products.

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