Are Facebook Photo Websites Legal?
A new phenomenon has popped up. Lonely guys making websites about girls that they don’t even know after finding their photos on Facebook. These sites are nothing short of stalker-ish. At one point the website FbChicks was shut down thanks to a legal complaint filed against them. It appears to be […]
A new phenomenon has popped up. Lonely guys making websites about girls that they don’t even know after finding their photos on Facebook. These sites are nothing short of stalker-ish. At one point the website FbChicks was shut down thanks to a legal complaint filed against them. It appears to be up and running again. A friend of mine instant-messaged me this afternoon with the hottest girls on Facebook website. This guy has gone through and as his site says, picked out the hottest girls on Facebook.
The strange part is that he has accessed their profile to get their pictures and I’m confident he didn’t phone them to ask. If I was the dad of any of these girls I would be pretty furious. He picked a group of sisters and created a separate blog post for each. This brings up the issue of privacy on Facebook and I would argue that in the way it is currently being used, it should be considered illegal. I’m not a lawyer though and I’m sure these guys have plenty of legal support given that they also have websites for the hottest Flickr and MySpace girls.
Something about the grouping of these photos makes it feel wrong even if it isn’t illegal. Do you think these sites should be shut down? Do you know the privacy law surrounding it? I wish I could speak more about the legality but I’m not a lawyer.
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“At one point the website FbChicks was shut down thanks to a legal complaint filed against them.”
That never happened, actually.