JK Rowling has won her appeal against the use by a newspaper of a photograph of her young son, taken while he was being pushed by her in a buggy on a street in Edinburgh in 2004.
And frankly, I don’t blame her.
Regardless of what she does or doesn’t do in her professional life, that should not have any effect on her personal life. If she’s at a professional event, she knows she’s going to get photographed, and she prepares herself for that.
She shouldn’t have to worry about photos being taken of her and her family while they are enjoying private, family time together, or even, as in this case, just going down the street. And her children shouldn’t have to grow up worrying about being pursued by photographers, when their personal life has nothing to do with their mothers job.
Category: privacy
Would you question a Facebook email
If it appeared to come from Facebook, and just asked you to confirm your name, date of birth and email address?
Or would you give an old school friend your eBay password?
Apparently, those details were enough for scammers to steal money from individuals who’d been perhaps a little too forthcoming with personal information on social networking sites.
It does seem that they were perhaps using some of their personal information that they also publicly shared as passwords, but still, how much do you trust Facebook and similar sites?
Would you be as wary about clicking links in an email that appeared to come from them or giving personal info as you would if it came from a stranger?
Do we now trust these sites more than banks, to the extent that an email from them must be authentic and reliable?
Facebook again
Well, they’ve responded quickly, as usual…do you think their motto’s a variation of Googles?
“Do only the evil you can get away with, but if anybody’s upset, fix it”?
Not really so snappy, but they do seem to be quite quick with their responses to issues…even if it was an odd concept in the first place.
I’d go nuts if a site decide to share what items I was buying, and where, with a loosely connected network of friends, colleagues, and people-I-went-to-school-with, who-don’t-understand-that-there-are-good-reasons-we-lost-touch….
Facebook..for EVER!
I knew it was a bad idea signing up to that thing! 🙂
I did know about not being able to delete your account, but it’s one of those things, you only want to be able to do it in concept, you want the option, but might well never use it.
I know I wouldn’t actually bother deleting my MySpace, Bebo or Facebook accounts, mainly because I occasionally get contact from people through them, there’s nothing on them that’s ‘dodgy’, and they’re an amusing way to while away some time sometimes (but would people puhlease stop trying to turn me into a vampire on Facebook?!!?).
But what about those people who signed up with their ‘proper’ name, then reconsidered their membership later? I know of people who’ve adopted a child, and don’t want the childs ‘interesting’ family to be able to find them after…how do they get themselves off it? Or the people who’ve unfortunately become the object of some over-attentive online friends obsession?
I assume Facebook will sort this issue out pretty fast, they seem to be very good at being responsive when problems are pointed out. In fact, maybe the peeps in charge of Facebook should have been running HMRC?
Dumpling in a Hanky 