A similar issue was also brought to my attention by the Parent-L listmum,
Narelle Clark. In Australia there have been public skirmishes between
Facebook and law authorities over cooperation related to accessing account
information and stopping or investigating crimes in progress. That was in
connection with the murder of a teen who was stalked by someone using
Facebook.

I hope their IPO filing results in an overhaul of their operations.

- Jodine Chase


On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Rachel Myr <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I've been hearing news reports this morning on Norwegian national
> broadcasting about Facebook in another context.  The perpetrator of
> the bombing of the government office building and shooting massacre of
> dozens of young people on Utøya July 22 was very active on Facebook
> right up until that day.  His FB account was shut down just hours
> afterwards and Norwegian authorities have been trying ever since to
> get access to his profile, etc. there.  Since the man himself has not
> been willing to sign a waiver of confidentiality, giving FB permission
> to release the info to the Norwegian police or to anyone else, it's in
> the court system, waiting for a California court to deal with the
> case.
>
> I think it's a good thing that FB maintain confidentiality of its
> members, as the potential for abuse is frightening if they were to
> roll over to police any time they were asked.  But given the resources
> they devote to harassing people who post images of breastfeeding on
> their profiles, it seems odd if they don't have similar reactions to
> people planning massacres of unarmed teenagers at summer camp, or
> bombings of governmental buildings in relatively peaceful countries
> with democratically elected leaders, a functioning legal system and
> one of the most equitable distributions of resources in the world
> (whatever your political views, these are facts that are difficult to
> dispute). I only hope the reason he was allowed to continue using FB
> as a contact forum is because he was not openly communicating the
> nature of his plans.
>
> If I had been aware of this before I wrote my own letter to Facebook,
> I would have mentioned it, for sure :-(
>
> Rachel Myr
> Kristiansand, Norway
>
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