Has anyone else seen this "You can't legally use my info, Facebook" message?

[SunnyD]

In all bathrooms, public or private, in your own house, on phone calls, and SOMETIMES in email.

See, this is where I beg to differ.

Public bathroom: There may or may not be anyone in the restroom with you. Regardless, it's public. I have no expectation of privacy (though a limited expectation of decency that noone will peek over the stall wall).

Phone calls and ALL email: These travel on 3rd party circuits. You have literally zero control over the phone switches and/or cell towers/airwaves your call and the routers and networks your emails are routed through, nor any guarantee of controls or safeguards for the transit of said communications. That also doesn't include the fact that someone may be listening in on your conversation from around the corner or looking over your shoulder as you're typing up your missive.

Not going all tinfoil hat on everybody, but FoBoT is pretty much spot on. My question what rhetorical anyway.

 

[jagec]

See, this is where I beg to differ.

Public bathroom: There may or may not be anyone in the restroom with you. Regardless, it's public. I have no expectation of privacy (though a limited expectation of decency that noone will peek over the stall wall).

Phone calls and ALL email: These travel on 3rd party circuits. You have literally zero control over the phone switches and/or cell towers/airwaves your call and the routers and networks your emails are routed through, nor any guarantee of controls or safeguards for the transit of said communications. That also doesn't include the fact that someone may be listening in on your conversation from around the corner or looking over your shoulder as you're typing up your missive.

Not going all tinfoil hat on everybody, but FoBoT is pretty much spot on. My question what rhetorical anyway.

"A reasonable expectation of privacy" doesn't mean that "it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to eavesdrop/take a picture/read my message". It means that people aren't legally allowed to without exceptional cause (a warrant, during an emergency), and, legal or not, it's not customary.

For public bathrooms, I meant the area behind the latched door, of course.

 

[Ns1]

just saw this c/p'ed on a friend's wall, i lol'd.

 

[Skel]

http://www.snopes.com/computer/facebook/privacy.asp

I was going to post that.. I keep posting it on everyone that posts that stupid thing on their walls

 

[DrPizza]

I saw one person post that on Facebook.

When I was done making fun of him for that level of foolishness, I was pretty certain that no one who has both of us on their friend's list would also make the same mistake. (He is one of those people who reposts everything that tells him to repost it. Oddly, after ripping him a new one, so to speak, the frequency of his reposting nonsense seems to have gone down.)