[Air-L] a question about privacy protection and copyright in Internet research

[Peter Timusk]

Courts are above business agreements so your agreement with Facebook does
not stop at the Facebook company level and can go to courts and rulings can
turn nasty on Facebook if they are nasty. I live in a society governed by
laws not men or women or computers. User Agreements are based on laws.
Students at my school brought a case against Facebook and forced changed to
their privacy practices.

Peter Timusk
at571 at ncf.ca
ptimusk at sympatico.ca
web: www.crystalcomputing.net
blogs www.cyborgcitizen.org

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of jeremy hunsinger
Sent: May-10-11 10:51 AM
To: Michael Zimmer
Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-L] a question about privacy protection and copyright in
Internet research

Well what actually happens when you put something on facebook?  it isn't
like you are sending a private letter to a group of friends.  it is much
closer to going to a shopping mall where all the video cameras are tracking
your every move.   It isn't your property you are acting within... it is
facebooks, in doing that acting you are agreeing with the terms that they
put upon you.  It isn't about your or my ethics Michael at that point, it
isn't about what we should do or our ethical systems, it is then about the
agreement that we consent to.