Police Advise Lawbreaking? [No]
Okay, let’s see if I’ve got this right.
If you say you will comply with the terms and conditions of a website, and you then break those terms, you are then unauthorised to use said site. Unauthorised use is against the law.
Facebook’s terms and conditions state that you will not:
provide any false personal information in your profile, create more than one profile, transfer your profile, create a profile for anyone other than yourself or create a page without authorization;Facebook Terms
So, how exactly does this tie in with:
Police officers and Microsoft workers have been giving 30-minute presentations at the schools on internet safety. Among the tips they offer for children using sites such as Facebook, MySpace or Bebo are not to use your real name;BBC News
Am I missing something? Or are these children being given advice by the police which — technically — would see them breaking the law?
If anyone can clarify, please do…
…and, thanks to those lovely chaps at Out-Law for the clarification.
It’s not a crime to lie in this situation, but it is a breach of contract. If Facebook were so inclined, it could terminate the account of the user.Struan Robertson, Out-Law.com (personal communication)
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