Judging someone who is mentally or physically ill by what they do on Facebook is beyond me. On your profile it doesn’t say how many drugs you are on. It doesn’t detail what your Doctors say. Most people would not put Doctors files or how many drugs they are on in their profile.
Looking at a picture of a person does not always tell us how sick they are.
That being said.
If you are smiling insurance companies can say you are not depressed. Well people taking drugs smile. Even if it is a pain medication. Pain medication can and does make people smile but it doesn’t mean if you see a person smiling that they are well. The same goes for anti Depressants. The whole point to taking them is to relieve your problems. Some just so the person doesn’t commit suicide.
A picture on a profile of a person smiling or doing something simple does not mean they are well enough to work however. It is just a picture and pictures do not always tell the whole truth about a persons personal problems.
Most people do not put a picture of themselves looking horrid and decrepit on their profiles.. Well do you?
Everything you do on Facebook it saved in their computers forever, they are “data mining”.
A judge has ordered a woman to provide details of her movements on Facebook, to use in order to determine, if she can go back to work.
Well on Facebook if your on drugs and you make a mistake no problem but in a workplace if you are on drugs, it can in itself cause problems.
In some jobs if you were working and on drugs you could in fact make a mistake and kill someone.
If you work in the medical field, a typo could mean the difference of a patient living or dieing.
Even Statin drugs used to lower blood cholesterol levels can mess you up pretty good, like the pilot could forget how to fly the plane. Statin drugs can mess with your memory, among other things. Just a little fact to always consider.
Drugs affect everyone.
If you were working with machinery you could kill yourself.
Even if you spent an hour or so on line at Facebook does not mean you could work a 40 hour week in and workplace. There are many factors which could cause the person problems in a workplace that being at home you wold not experience. One cannot compare the two.
There are too many factors involved that would have to be taken into consideration.
Anyone at home in bed could use Facebook.
Anyone in a wheel chair could use Facebook.
People who are mentally ill can probably use Facebook.
Even Seniors can use Facebook.
That in no way means they can work a 40 hour week now does it…?
Well the Judge thinks it’s OK to use that as a factor in a court case.
Facebook what you do and say on it can and will be used against you in a court of law.
Turn over Facebook history, judge orders
A New Brunswick judge has ordered a Miramichi woman to reveal how often she uses the social-networking website Facebook to a man she’s suing after a 2004 car crash.
Rosemary Carter is fighting Herbert Connors for damages after the two were involved in a collision in the northern New Brunswick community five years ago.
In her lawsuit, Carter has said she hasn’t been able to return to work full-time as an administrative clerk at the Miramichi Hospital.
During the discovery process, when each side in the dispute asks for evidence, Conners’ lawyer asked Carter to turn over her internet records from Bell Aliant and specifically to disclose her Facebook activity.
She refused, saying turning over that information would violate her privacy.
Connors’ lawyer asked a judge to order her to turn them over, a request that was granted by Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Fred Ferguson on Dec. 2.
He wrote in his decision there’s a low threshold for disclosing evidence and it met the “semblance of relevance” test required when deciding if information will be turned over during discovery.
“It does so, by possibly providing a window into what physical capacity the plaintiff has to keyboard, access the internet and communicate with family friends and associates on Facebook and thus what capacity she may have to work. In that sense: ‘It may lead to the discovery of admissible evidence,’ the threshold required for the evidence to be produced,” the judge’s decision said.
“Incidentally, it must not be forgotten that this legal action was commenced by the plaintiff and in launching it she has implicitly accepted certain intrusions into what otherwise might be private information, the disclosure of which would ordinarily be left to her own personal judgment.”
Ferguson’s decision also cited a British Columbia ruling in which a Facebook account was used to determine if a car accident victim was still able to play sports.
The judge also said he’ll make sure during the trial that Connors doesn’t use the information too intrusively.
Quebec woman lost insurance over Facebook photos
Carter’s case raises similarities to another high-profile Canadian example of how a person’s Facebook account has become the centre of a legal fight.
In November, Nathalie Blanchard, 29, said her disability pay for depression was cancelled because of her Facebook profile.
Blanchard took sick leave from her job at IBM last year, after she was diagnosed with major depression. In that time, she took various approaches to treat her mood disorder, including prescription medication and therapy.
Blanchard also tried to have fun, which was also recommended by her physician.
However, photographs of that fun — a beach holiday last year, a night out on the town with friends — are part of the evidence Manulife used to stop payments this fall.
Blanchard said the insurance company told her that she looked well enough to work based on her Facebook photos.
Manulife stopped paying her sick-leave benefits, and her mortgage company, Desjardins, ended her insurance payments
Related to above article
Depressed woman fails 1st try to recoup benefits
Quebecer’s Facebook photo fight a cautionary tale
Depressed woman loses benefits over Facebook photos
DOCUMENT: N.B. Court of Queen’s Bench decision regarding disclosure of Facebook use
Now here we have a rather intensive interview with a Facebook employee a must to read. They go into some interesting details including the fact that employees can go into anyone account. They also could change anything in “YOUR” profile if they wanted to. Do go and read the rest it is all very interesting. Facebook is data mining your every move.
Facebook tracks your every move. Of course if a family member was using your account or doing something for you, Facebook would not know that. Just because a profile has new updates, does not mean the persons who’s name is on the account actually did the updating.
Even Facebook employees can update you profile lest we forget.
Anonymous Facebook Employee: Everything You Do Is Tracked And Stored Forever
The other problem that happened not so long ago.
Compliments of AT &T Seem AT&T was logging their customers onto other peoples Facebook accounts. So strangers were in strangers accounts. They could update add photos whatever one would do in their own account.
Alarming glitch hits Facebook mobile accounts compliments of AT&T
Privacy commissioner looking at how Facebook gets data
January 18 2010
TORONTO — Canada’s privacy commissioner is launching a series of public consultations to investigate how personal data is being mined online through social networking sites.
The public has until March 15 to file written submissions to Jennifer Stoddart, who is examining the privacy risks associated with the tracking, profiling and targeting of consumers online.
The consultations are being done in the lead-up to a review by Parliament of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.
Stoddart, who was not available for comment Monday, said in a statement that she hopes to examine “issues that we feel pose a serious challenge to the privacy of consumers, now and in the near future” and to promote debate about “the impact of these technological developments on privacy.”
She cited Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Foursquare as examples of websites that collect mounds of personal information from users, mostly voluntarily.
The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, which complained to Stoddart about some of Facebook’s policies in 2008, applauded the decision to proactively investigate possible privacy concerns linked to some of the web’s newer technologies.
“If people want to use these sites they should be able to do it but you want to be able to make sure they’re aware of (how it works) — it’s about matching up user expectations to what’s actually happening online,” said staff lawyer Tamir Israel.
He said there are advantages to websites having access to detailed information about users.
“It helps, for example, (for websites) to be able to monetize themselves through advertising revenues instead of charging customers — we think that’s good,” he said.
“But we think there really needs to be protections in place because you are basically using the visitors’ personal information and making money off it.”
Emerging social media trends include mobile access and location-based features. Foursquare encourages users to share details about where they go on a daily basis, including which shops and restaurants they frequent.
With many phones now using GPS locators, “it’s going to be very easy to know where everybody is at every moment and I think there’s going to be a lot of problems around that,” Israel said.
“Law enforcement can access this kind of information if it’s on someone’s server, often just by asking or with some type of warrant. So they’ll be able to know where everybody was at any given time.”
Public discussion panels are being organized in Toronto in April and Montreal in May.
A future consultation will also examine the privacy implications of “cloud computing,” which stores users’ data online rather than on personal computers. Examples include Google’s popular Gmail service and its suite of Google Docs applications — including a word processor and spreadsheet maker — which work entirely online.
So now we move onto this little tid bit.
Facebook decides they want you name so they can make a deal with a company for money of course why else would they do it.
Facebook Snatches User’s Vanity URL And Sells It To Harman International
By Michael Arrington
January 23, 2010
This looks really, really bad. An avid Facebook user named Harman Bajwa says that his Facebook vanity Url – Facebook.com/Harman – was unceremoniously revoked yesterday for violating Facebook’s policies. His new Facebook URL is the much less memorable facebook.com/profile.php?id=538612932.
Facebook then apparently did a sales deal around the vanity URL with Harman International.
The notice from Facebook (also in image at bottom of post):
Please Read This!
WarningThe username you selected was removed for violating Facebook’s policies. A Facebook username should have a clear connection to one’s identity. In addition, impersonating anyone or anything is prohibited. If you see other people with usernames that do not accurately represent their real names, it is only because they have not yet been removed for misuse.
To select a new username, please visit the following link:
http://www.facebook.com/username
Thanks for your understanding,
The Facebook Team
There’s just one problem. “Harman” as a vanity URL is perfectly appropriate as a username for someone named Harman Bajwa. Facebook’s VP Global Sales Mike Murphy has /mike, for example, much to my personal annoyance.
And while we’re on the topic of Mike Murphy, he may actually be the guy behind all of this. It turns out that the reason Facebook wants to take back that /Harman vanity URL may be more about money and less (much less) about policy violations.
That’s because Harman also received an email yesterday from a representative of Harman International, which is apparently “working with Facebook” to take the /Harman username for a initiative they’re doing around the Grammy Awards. They’re offering “promotional items” to Harman to hand the name over willingly:
From: Tyler Bahl
To: Harman Bajwa
Sent: Fri, January 22, 2010 11:25:21 AM
Subject: HarmanHi Harman,
Thanks for accepting my friend request on Facebook.
I’m the emerging media strategist at Carat in Boston and I work on the Harman International account. We’re launching our first initiative in partnership with the GRAMMYS on Monday. Harman International is looking to obtain the vanity url facebook.com/harman for their Facebook fan page.
We are currently working with Facebook to reclaim (http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=896#/help.php?page=899) the username, but I wanted to explore opportunities to work with you to acquire the name. In the past, we have offered product in exchange for social domain names. One case in mind was for the new movie Avatar , we were able to give promotional items to the owner of twitter.com/avtr for Coke Zero.
We’ve reached out to Facebook PR for comment, although the evidence, unless fake, sort of speaks for itself. This is actually one of those times that I’m hoping that we’re being duped somehow, because telling users they’ve done something wrong when really all you’re doing is pursuing a sales quota is really, really distasteful. We’ll update with any comment.
Harman, to his credit, isn’t all that angry. “It would be great if I get my User name back,” he said in an email to me, adding that he’s working on a startup that will launch next summer.
Rest assured, Harman, we’ll be covering it.
Click on Screen shot to enlarge
Update: Facebook Gives Harman His Name Back, Apologizes
Only because they got Caught. LOL
Now other things that could happen. When one thinks of all those photos on Facebook one must think of this incident with a Spanish Lawmaker who had his photo snagged off line by the FBI and used it to update Bin Laden’s picture. Well they also updated 17 other people who are most wanted. Question is did they use YOUR photo to do the updates.
Spanish lawmaker’s photo used for bin Laden poster
Question would something you put on Facebook be used to say you are anti semitic. This new law Harper Gov is considering is totally unnecessary, as Canada already has laws to cover this. Anything anyone says against Israel is considered anti Semitic however no matter how innocent it is. Even the media gets bombarded by stupid e-mails over nothing. They just want to shut people up. They even try to shut up those on blogs, you tube, Human rights organizations etc etc etc. This new law would only take away Canadians Freedom of Speech.
Freedom of speech has been removed in this context in many countries. Do you want to give them even more power, I think not.
News agency’s have been affected in any that have a comment section the comment section is most times not, been put into a story about Israel. Loss of a freedom right there. So if there is something that you find inaccurate about what is said in the News story you cannot comment and say your bit. This in a lot of the media I and others have noticed. Do we want them using things like Facebook to track what you say. The answer would be no. If this law was passed they most certainly would use it against you. Many times people just say things out of anger that doesn’t mean you hate all Jewish people however.
Do you want it forbidden to talk about Israel if it does something that may be a war crime or a crime against humanity. Absolutely NO NO NO.
Israel: Attempting to take away Canadians Freedom of Speech
This child had her photo taken from a news agency I assume and it was used for all the wrong things. Could be they snagged her photo from Facebook even. So if a person posted this story on Facebook could they be charged with being anti Semitic under the new Canadian Law if it ever gets passed. Probably.
In may countries if you deny that Holocaust happened they way they say it did, You go to jail. Getting the drift. So they are forcing us to believe something we may not even believe. “They even invade our freedom of thought”.
US/Israeli Charity uses little Palestinian Childs photo to raise money for Israel’s Hungry
One thing leads to another. Always think way ahead.
When they take away the freedom from one person or a group of people they are also taking that very freedom away form YOU…….
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