In today’s Quick Hits, we talk about Facebook’s continued mobile growth, why a celebrity’s angry tweets are worth paying attention to, and thoughts from the National Association of Realtors on possible data privacy legislation.

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Facebook Adds 50 Million Mobile Users

Since April, Facebook has added 50 million mobile users for a total of 150 million. Facebook hopes to further increase this number with the introduction of 0.facebook.com, “a mobile site that includes all the key features of Facebook but is optimized for speed.” With the rise in smartphone use, a growth in mobile social networking was to be expected. With increased mobile social networking, however, comes an increase in data security threats.

Actress Kristen Chenoweth’s Twitter Complaint Gets a Starbucks Barista in Trouble

A lesson to all baristas out there, be nice to everyone you serve. Broadway and television actress Kristen Chenoweth took to Twitter recently to complain about a rude Starbucks barista. The celebrity complaint caught the attention of a Starbucks manager who informed her “I’m taking care of it.” Chenoweth doesn’t know whether she got the young woman fired, but, showing a lack of regard for the plight of the common worker, told David Letterman “People don’t have jobs so you better be grateful!”

Five Useful Firefox Privacy Extensions

The web makes life undeniably more convenient, but that convenience comes with a price. If you want to get information online, you also have to give some up in the form of personal browsing data. CNET’s Dennis O’Reilly highlights five extensions for the Firefox browser that can help web users limit the data that they are sharing online and better protect their privacy.

Do Gen Y Attitudes About Privacy Affect Security?

Sue Marquette Poremba of IT Business Edge discusses a recent Pew Research Center poll that predicts current members of Gen Y (individuals born during the 1980s and early 1990s) will continue to broadcast large amounts of personal information via social networking websites in 10 years. Poremba discusses this prediction in terms of how current Gen Y professionals may pose security problems for companies.

National Association of Realtors Opposes Boucher-Stearns Legislation

The Boucher-Stearns data privacy legislation that is currently making the rounds in Washington D.C. has raised the ire of numerous groups. One group that has voiced their opposition to the legislation is the National Association of Realtors, who claim that if the law were enacted, “impose a difficult and costly compliance burden on our industry especially impacting independent contractors and small businesses,” and would have “serious unintended consequences both for Realtors and for homebuying consumers.”