On May 15, 2:42 pm, Cynic wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2008 23:36:36 GMT, Periander <4rubb...@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).
>
> --
> Cynic
No, there is *something* behind it ... the HS's announcement about
the forthcoming Instrument on emails and 'RSO's.
FP have jumped the gun (perhaps for other reasons, too).
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