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DamianTV
09-22-2012, 01:24 PM
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/21/2123201/facebook-wants-you-to-snitch-on-friends-not-using-their-real-name


"Freedom to go under a pseudonym is, miraculously, one freedom to survive the security lock-down of the previous decade. Now Facebook wants to change this. James Firth shows Facebook is clamping down on pseudonyms, with an interesting screenshot of being asked whether a friend is using their real name."

http://paulbernal.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/snitching1.jpg?w=614

The problem here is that even if you dont use facebook, if you have a friend that uses facebook, your picutre is also in facebook's facial recognition database. Oh, yeah, and then there is Europe (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19675172).