Gawker has an article today about how Julia Allison may have broken the law by converting 2,500 of her Facebook ‘Friends’ into ‘Fans’ without their consent. Apparently, this violates laws against commercial appropriation – “simply put, the right to control whether one’s name and likeness is used in an advertisement to give the appearance of [...]
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The Sun reports that police in the UK are using Facebook to find young people with knives and guns. Superintentent Bob Hamilton from Strathclyde Police says,
He said: “We show the parents their pictures, recover the weapons and make sure they know that behaviour is unacceptable.
“We have large kitchen knives, axes, samurai swords, baseball bats, [...]
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In the UK, security services announced plans to monitor social networking sites, creating a ’super database’ of people’s online behavior. Meanwhile, Facebook software engineers held a cupcake party to celebrate the 10 billionth photo uploaded to the site.
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