[dundee] Fwd: SSCL Event: Facebook and Social Networking Sites: Cyber-Stalking Paradise 2.0?

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From: SSCL <sscl at ccwlegal.co.uk>
Date: 2008/8/28
Subject: SSCL Event: Facebook and Social Networking Sites: Cyber-Stalking
Paradise 2.0?
To: SSCL <sscl at ccwlegal.co.uk>


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 *The Scottish Society for Computers & Law *



*Prof. Lilian Edwards*

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*Facebook and Social Networking Sites: Cyber-Stalking **Paradise 2.0?*

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*Wednesday 3rd September 2008 *

*6.30 p.m. (refreshments from 6.00 p.m)*

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*The Faculty of Advocates, Mackenzie Building (behind Fringe Office) High
Street, Edinburgh*





The last two years have seen unprecedented growth in the web 2.0 domain of
"social networking" sites or SNSs - encompassing ubiquitous names such as
Facebook, Bebo, MySpace, Live Journal and Club Penguin. Such sites are not
only popular with users, but attractive to entrepreneurs, both for potential
advertising revenue but also as an easy way of collecting valuable personal
data. The downside of social networking for users accordingly is the
potential privacy risks of disclosure: are SNSs truly a "voyeur's charter"?
The media already abounds with stories of Facebook being used by police and
other authorities to scan for crimes; of employers and universities using
SNSs to filter out aspiring employees and students; of ID theft and
financial fraud using data gleaned from public user profiles; and of
stalking by inter alia ex-partners, strangers and  commercial and political
rivals. This presentation will explore whether and how far the law may
protect users who in ignorance or innocence disclose more than they should
online, especially the young and vulnerable; and asks if we are really
seeing a shift in values from privacy to disclosure.



*Who should come?* both lawyers and non-lawyers who are interested in or
have been affected by the issues arising from social networking sites and
the collection and use of personal data. This should appeal to those with an
interest in the right to privacy and the potential for unauthorised use of
personal information by third parties from government authorities to
advertisers. It should also appeal to anyone interested and stimulated by
original and intelligent thought and provocative debate.

*Prof. Lilian Edwards** **worked at Strathclyde University from 1986-1988
and Edinburgh University from 1989 to 2006 before moving to become Chair of
Internet Law at Southampton. She is Associate Director, and was co-founder,
of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Centre for IP and
Technology Law. She has taught IT, e-commerce and Internet law at
undergraduate and postgraduate level since 1996 and has been involved with
law and artificial intelligence (AI) since 1985. She has been a visiting
scholar and invited lecturer to universities in the USA, Canada, Australia,
Mexico, and Latin America. She co-edited two bestselling collections **on
Law and the Internet** with Charlotte Waelde, and her collection of essays *
*The New Legal Framework for E-Commerce in Europe** was published by Hart in
December 2005. Her work in on-line consumer privacy won the Barbara Wellbery
Memorial Prize in 2004 for the best solution to the problem of privacy and
transglobal data flows. *

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*To book a place please reply by e-mail to:*
claire.gibbons at advocates.org.uk<claire.gibbons at advocates.org.uk>

*This event will qualify for 1 hour CPD***
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