Comments on: Is It OK to Use Deceit to Get Facebook Users' Info? http://www.slaw.ca/2009/05/08/is-it-ok-for-to-use-deceit-to-get-facebook-users-info/ Canada's online legal magazine Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:12:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Canton http://www.slaw.ca/2009/05/08/is-it-ok-for-to-use-deceit-to-get-facebook-users-info/comment-page-1/#comment-704478 David Canton Fri, 08 May 2009 16:32:25 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=8481#comment-704478 My understanding of investigative techniques that courts will allow is that it is OK for an investigator to misrepresent himself (eg to pose as a buyer of products). but it is not OK to impersonate someone else (eg for me to pretend I'm David Fraser.) So by having someone try to get added as a "friend" - perhaps it should be OK so long as the "friend" doesn't pretend to be someone else? After all, its up to the individual to accept others as "friends", so if they do that without really knowing who that "friend" is (so long as the "friend" has not lied about who they are) - has not the individual just lowered his expectation of privacy by being less discriminating? My understanding of investigative techniques that courts will allow is that it is OK for an investigator to misrepresent himself (eg to pose as a buyer of products). but it is not OK to impersonate someone else (eg for me to pretend I'm David Fraser.)

So by having someone try to get added as a "friend" – perhaps it should be OK so long as the "friend" doesn't pretend to be someone else? After all, its up to the individual to accept others as "friends", so if they do that without really knowing who that "friend" is (so long as the "friend" has not lied about who they are) – has not the individual just lowered his expectation of privacy by being less discriminating?

]]> By: Dan http://www.slaw.ca/2009/05/08/is-it-ok-for-to-use-deceit-to-get-facebook-users-info/comment-page-1/#comment-704474 Dan Fri, 08 May 2009 14:25:10 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=8481#comment-704474 When is it ever OK to use deceit to get Anything? When is it ever OK to use deceit to get Anything?

]]> By: Peg Duncan http://www.slaw.ca/2009/05/08/is-it-ok-for-to-use-deceit-to-get-facebook-users-info/comment-page-1/#comment-704472 Peg Duncan Fri, 08 May 2009 14:05:50 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=8481#comment-704472 Whether or not it's a question of legal ethics, it is distasteful. If you don't draw the line there, where do you? Whether or not it's a question of legal ethics, it is distasteful. If you don't draw the line there, where do you?

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