The Daily Californian, April 9, 2010 by Katrina Escudero
http://www.dailycal.org/article/108991/concerns_persist_after_facebook_settlement

“Consumer privacy issues have taken on a new importance with the rise of social networking,” Hoofnagle said. “The problem is that existing regulatory structures are convinced that privacy issues are institutional. We think of entities such as phone companies as the privacy threat, but with social networking, we are the threat because we reveal too much.”

“What we have to worry about is search histories, pictures and documents that can easily get linked to your e-mail account,” Lynch said. “That info can be used by Google to market you personally, but more importantly, if the U.S. government requested that information from Google, they could easily be granted access to it.”

The Boston Globe, January 11, 2009 by Julie Masis
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2009/01/11/is_this_lawman_your_facebook_friend/?page=full

Jennifer Lynch, a lecturer at the law school … said there are ethical issues involved when police pretend to be someone’s friend to get access to their profile. “If police are creating a fake profile and asking to be a friend, they are not going through the court” to obtain a search warrant, she said. “So you’re losing the checks and balances that we value in our criminal justice system.”

Contra Costa Times, June 6, by Matt Krupnick
http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/ci_9504652?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contracostatimes.com

Sallie Mae sent borrowers’ passwords by e-mail, a practice few lenders use, said Jennifer Lynch, an attorney who oversaw the student-led project…. “Sallie Mae’s practices just seemed antiquated, to say the least, and very risky,” she said. “They should have known this was a risky practice.”

“They sent this information to their customers … and people have been discussing it on blogs,” [student Kathleen] Lu said.