Paul F Burgueño

Curiosities "legal" social networking

A few days ago we saw some legal curiosities that exist in Second Life and other virtual worlds, virtual connection with the murder of an avatar.

Today we will focus on real cases that have happened have following a careless use of social networks:

Dismiss a worker for photos uploaded to Facebook: 649,000 pages of case talking and Kevin Colvin. quel is a Halloween Eve, Colvin, a fellow Anglo Irish Bank's North American, sent an e-mail informing him that his superiority for urgent family reasons was to fly to New York. Hours after Colvin enjoyed a happy Halloween party in which he took a picture dressed in bell. This photo ended up on facebook and therefore in the hands of all his friends, colleagues ... and the boss! Colvin was fired and now its history and continue to multiply photo online.

Photos uploaded to Tuenti girls are distributed over the Internet: Half-Dead is a community of players online in a forum in a few months ago one of your users opened a comment thread devoted to pictures of girls who had uploaded their photo to Tuenti . The system was very simple: a user accessed Tuenti photographs, downloaded or link your URL to embed in the forum and voila! gallery created. Despite protests from some users, the girls themselves, friends of them and sent a burofax Tuenti, photographs continued there until it became impossible to keep them for legal and social pressures received. I wonder how many photographs have already left Tuenti?

Girl dies as a result of virtual identity theft: Just before the summer (May 08) in the U.S., a woman was sentenced for posing as a boy fall in love after virtually a companion of his daughter (age 13), threatened and intimidated to the point of provoking his suicide.

View interview Topless girl hours earlier in a social network: One of the speakers at the roundtable organized by Javier Celeya last week to present his new book, The Web 2.0 company, told us how strange it is done to one into the profile of a person with whom you will interview hours later and see her topless. I guess the funniest part comes when that person physically greet dressed ...

Even children of 17 years know that by hitting it access the network: Some social networks are prohibited from having access to children under 18. The veto system consists of two buttons: Pressing on to say "YES" to access the network. The other says NO and no one knows what happens when pressed.

All children must go through the prosecution: Children who are not yet mature enough to understand the risks associated Internet should ask your parent (or guardian) that a written consent to upload a photo to Tuenti. The father is, in turn, "forced to put on prior knowledge of the prosecution's consent projected. If within eight days contesting the prosecution, the court shall decide. " Something tells me that the Article 3.2 of Law 1 / 1982 not being fulfilled completely. We understand that all children over 14 are mature enough ...

These are just some of the many curiosities that exist on social networking and probably speak tomorrow at the Library Technical Session for the Madrid region.