Nov

29

2007

Is Facebook Breaking Privacy Laws?

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Facebook may be facing some tough battles ahead over their new SocialAds and Beacon programs.
The article touches on a hot button topic, because with the advent of all these popular social networking sites, the lines are blurred between opt-in and opt-out. These lines need to be drawn more clearly.
When a photographer wants to sell someone's picture, that photographer needs to get a copyright release, signed and sealed, from that "model".
There are no questions. No company will buy the picture without a release.
But Facebook is assuming that an opt-in agreement is good enough. That is the question for the courts.

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