On Wed, 14 May 2008 23:36:36 GMT, Periander <4rubbish@britwar.co.uk>
wrote:
>> http://www.faceparty.com/missing_account.aspx
>> Surely - this can't be legal?
>They make at least one factual claim which is simply wrong I suspect that
>they have misintrpreted something. However, it's their site they can do
>what they want with it. Live with it ...
They state that it is illegal to allow anyone over 30 onto a social
networking site unless the site carries out a CRB check. I am unaware
of *any* law that has an age demarcation of 30, and certainly there is
no law that compells a website to carry out CRB checks on its members.
They also state that it is a criminal offence to give a false age on
the Internet. There is no such law - falsely representing yourself as
a child could be used as indicative evidence should a person do other
things that could be construed as "grooming", but is not in itself a
crime.
It is pretty obvious that the site have concocted a string of lies and
is using child-safety as an excuse for actions it has carried out for
completely different reasons.
Faceparty have done some other pretty unethical things in the recent
past. I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole (even if I were under
30).
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