• Facebook must reveal underage users
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Maybe we should be focusing on educating kids and keeping a closer eye on what they do online rather than going on a witch hunt against the companies that run the services....It isn't exactly Facebook's fault that she was able to make up info to register, which is a breach of their TOS anyway. It really really irks me that in today's day and age, educating kids/people about net safety, hackers, viruses etc is almost non existent and as such we have this stuff where kids are being doxed, blackmailed, groomed (We hear about the people caught grooming and meeting kids for sex, but imagine how many actually go through with it without being caught) [quote]Facebook is being sued by the girl's father, for alleged negligence and breaching her right to privacy.[/quote] I'm not one to pass judgement usually...but what? She used false info to sign up and send nudes to people, maybe he should take his share of the blame for giving her free reign to do it.
[quote]But with the schoolgirl now under a care order, lawyers for her father claimed an open registration system meant it was too easy for her to set up profiles and be at potential risk from paedophiles.[/quote] he's not going to win this case. What does he expect it to do? Automatically know your age? You can lie about your age on facebook as you can with any site, this isn't negligence on facebook's part but rather negligence on the father's part to not teach his eleven year old daughter not to put her nudes on the web
Fuck that was her fault and his
[QUOTE=Cabbage;45631738]he's not going to win this case. What does he expect it to do? Automatically know your age? You can lie about your age on facebook as you can with any site, this isn't negligence on facebook's part but rather negligence on the father's part to not teach his eleven year old daughter not to put her nudes on the web[/QUOTE] The obivous solution is that facebook require goverement registered ID to sign up.
[QUOTE=Lurklet;45634763]The obivous solution is that facebook require goverement registered ID to sign up.[/QUOTE] I can imagine that being the idea but its still a completely stupid one. It shouldn't be Facebook's responsibility to have to verify its billion+ users, and that would be too impractical to be done manually. No matter what they do there is going to be underage people registering. Even if they did have some kind of ID based system it isn't hard to use a relative's ID, one online or even just create/edit one or your own to make yourself over age. I know people who have done that kind of thing before when they have had to scan their ID for verification for things, and these are regular kids who arent the most computer savvy, but its literally a case of changing a few pixels in photoshop or paint and you are good to go.
[QUOTE=Cushie;45646926]I can imagine that being the idea but its still a completely stupid one. It shouldn't be Facebook's responsibility to have to verify its billion+ users, and that would be too impractical to be done manually. No matter what they do there is going to be underage people registering. Even if they did have some kind of ID based system it isn't hard to use a relative's ID, one online or even just create/edit one or your own to make yourself over age. I know people who have done that kind of thing before when they have had to scan their ID for verification for things, and these are regular kids who arent the most computer savvy, but its literally a case of changing a few pixels in photoshop or paint and you are good to go.[/QUOTE] I am actually joking about the ID thing, rediculous lol. But just for the sake of argument, in a different world (or maybe the future,) [I]they could[/I] make it a criminal offence to use fake ID on facebook and make facebook a goverment opporated site.
How about we actually start teaching kids about internet privacy and safety since it's such a massive prominent tool now.
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