Sunday, July 15, 2007

On Friendster, Policewomen, and the Bill of Rights

Read this. It's very interesting. it makes one think about what our guys and gals in blue are up to nowadays. Follow this link: http://services.inquirer.net/express/07/07/14/html_output/xmlhtml/20070713-76517-xml.html.

Check out her Friendster profile: http://www.friendster.com/user.php?statpos=bc&uid=46397375

This is very interesting to me because right now, everyone has accounts either on Friendster, Myspace, Multiply or the newcomer, Facebook. In today's world, apparently, the lines on what is or what is not private is blurring by the second. People's lives are already out in the open, either through the accounts they maintain on these sites, or through their blogs also. Will estoppel work against a person who has such an account, if he or she invokes his or her right to privacy.

Now, regarding this policewoman who bared herself wearing provocative clothes, whether you agree with me on the word or not, doesn't she enjoy the Constitutional right to free speech or expression through her Friendster account? If one has an account in either of these sites, isn't it an exercise of one's basic civil liberties?

I have an account on Friendster. What disturbed me was that in making my account, apparently another person made an account with the same name as mine. And I did not make this. The person who made the account apparently knows some basic information about me. Is this a case of identity theft then?

As my father always says when he hears about these kinds of things, "the kids of today, tsk tsk."

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