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On Law and Facebook

By John Dermody, Travis Hodgkins, and Nema Milaninia

With the rise of web-based social networking services such as Facebook and Myspace, the massive collection of personal information collected by these sites has brought up some interesting legal issues around the world. The most common legal issues surrounding sites like Facebook involve questions about 1) privacy issues, and 2) what role can the information on people's personal pages play in legal proceeding? Is the information actually private?While much has been made about Facebook trying to change its terms of service, and then backing down in the face of a large grass-roots opposition by its users, there have been legal...

Full post as published by Transnational Law Blog on March 04, 2009 (boomark / email).