[BNM] Death to s/facebook/fedbook and the great CIA social data mining exercise

[David Pashley]

On Jan 02, 2008 at 15:58, Lloyd Raworth praised the llamas by saying:
> Hi, Happy New Year and all that ...
> 
> Shortly before xmas, in response to an invite, I tried to open a  
> Facebook account/page/site/whatever it's called. My application was  
> refused. Facebook told me this was because the email address I tried  
> to use was unacceptable as it "could be the address of a business"  
> and Facebook does not accept applications from businesses. So I just  
> thought 'fine' and left it at that. Rejected by Facebook. +1 on my  
> street cred. Yippee.
> 
> But I've now noticed that there is a page on Facebook using my name  
> and an unfamiliar gmail address here: http://www.facebook.com/people/ 
> Lloyd_Raworth/695772392. I realise there may be another Lloyd Raworth  
> somewhere, but I'm also concerned about the possibility of Facebook  
> setting this page up without my consent as some yucky sort of  
> 'favour' in order to 'entice' me back after I didn't reapply with a  
> different email address. Paranoid? Hmmm. As Andy has sensibly pointed  
> out, we're talking about the CIA here. The fact that this page is  
> still blank hasn't assuaged my suspicion.
> 
I count 7 David Pashleys on facebook, 4 with no pictures and 6 with no
network information. Ever thought that there might just possibly be
someone out there with the same name as you? "Never attribute to malice
that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

> As anyone else had this experience? Can anyone enlighten me on the  
> possible legal options here? Suing Facebook for identity theft and  
> copyright infringement would be a splendid start to 08.
> 

Wow, you so need to learn law.

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David Pashley
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Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.