Pete Warden, a British immigrant and entrepreneurial software engineer who blogs under “PeteSearch,” ostensibly destroyed his database showing regional patterns among 210 million Facebook users when the social networking site accused him of misusing the site according to its terms of use and threatened him with a lawsuit.According to the man’s blog, Pete Warden of Boulder, Colorado, said he had planned to give the data to social science researchers. Facebook maintained that Warden gathered the data in contravention to its terms of use. In response, Warden says he has now destroyed the data, heading off a potential lawsuit he reportedly wasn’t entirely convinced was legal.
After I read this case two things comes in mind , the first point is mainly related to social network and information security, this guy wasn't the first person who collected information from Facebook and other social networks and definitely couldn't be the last one ,so there is always potential risk that people misuse such information that they collected illegally from social networks.Thus social networks users have to be aware of such potential threat and don't share important information on these networks.
Second point is related to Cybele issues ,I believed that this case must trial based on Cyberlaw ,because he violated Term of use of the Facebook as a user ,whether or not this guy didn't have any wrong intention from collecting that information.
Reference:
Man who erases Face book data....,http//www.exmainer,com
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