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 occurred as a result of careless use of social networks:

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

Girls photos uploaded to the Internet are distributed Tuenti: Half-Dead is a community of online players in the form of forum in a few months ago one of its users opened a dedicated thread to post pictures of girls who had uploaded his 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 the latter and sent a Tuenti burofax, photographs continued there until it was impossible to maintain 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 for his daughter (age 13), threatened and intimidated to the point of provoking his suicide.

Interview on Girl Topless hours before seen in a social network: One of the speakers of the roundtable hosted by Javier Celeya last week to present his new book, The Web 2.0 company , told us how strange it is done to enter a profile of a person with whom you will interview hours later and see her topless. I guess the funniest part comes when that person's physical health dressed ...

Even children of 17 years know that clicking on it access the network: Some social networks are prohibited from having access to children under 18. The veto system consists of two buttons: Clicking on the one that says "YES" to access the network. The other says no, and nobody 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 their parent (or guardian) that a written consent to upload a photo to Tuenti. The father is, in turn, "must make prior informed consent of the prosecution planned. If, within eight days opposes the prosecution, the judge decide. " Something tells me that Article 3.2 of Law 1 / 1982 is 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 Community of Madrid .