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[ NNSquad ] California Bill Would Give Parents Access To Kids' Facebook Pages
California Bill To Give Parents Access To Kids' Facebook Pages http://j.mp/mLpHE6 (TechCrunch) One assumes laudable motives behind this, but the issues are formidable. Do children have *any* right to privacy in this context? How would "parents" establish and authenticate their relationship vis-a-vis any given child's Facebook pages, especially with Facebook only having 48 hours before a potential $10K fine hits? That is, how can you *prove* that you're really the parent of whomever is behind a given Facebook page, and that you have the *right* to make demands under this proposed legislation? The list of even purely logistical issues alone associated with something like this is extremely long. And of course, where does this lead? On-demand access to email? Instant messages? This smells of being (a) politically motivated, and/or (b) very poorly thought through. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Google Buzz: http://j.mp/laurenbuzz Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com