Social Networking, Privacy, and the Law
If a police investigator finds Facebook photos that prove that you were in a Hawaii triathlon last month, at the same time that you were receiving disability payments from your home state, has the investigator broken the law?
San Francisco Chronicle journalist Bob Egelko examines a few such cases and writes that the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed suit this week to help define those legal limits. Along the way, he speaks with Shane Witnov, who has helped write “guidelines for lawyers’ use of social networking sites.”
Sources
. Bob Egelko, Suit Wants Details About Cops’ Online Probes, San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 5, 2009.
. “Social Networks: Friends or Foes? Confronting Online Legal and Ethical Issues in the Age of Social Networking,” a conference held on Oct. 23, 2009, UC Berkeley School of Law, MP3 recordings and readings.
. David Lee and Shane Witnov, Handbook on Conducting Research on Social-Networking Websites in California, Dec. 1, 2008.
