It is a growing source of personal information, our internet. The Judicial system is leap-frogging in attempt to get at least up to speed with Internet Technology. And by the number of reports it is closing the tech gap rapidly. Governors on booty lists, Mayors closing their sites due to "misconstrued" verbiage, kids getting the maximum sentence for involuntary manslaughter plus juvenile delinquency, Teddy Kennedy dumping diesel in Nantucket Bar Harbor... it is a Fantasmagorical event in human endeavors.
Recently the judicial system required Google to turn over its login information. A judge said "it can be downloaded on four terrabyte storage units." I suppose this means anyone with four terrabytes storage could swipe the information anyway.
MooPig has several articles from publishers about how Human Resources uses the internet to further fact check its applicants. Ignoble ranting in blogging, as it is, can be interpreted however one wants because it still is the public forum it was designed to be.
It is just now, 2008, that the Supreme Court will become a Supreme User in the system as it cleans up all its messes. Meanwhile current supreme users will find a web 2.0 to keep their public forum "private," ..no? Should be fun to watch it develop.
That is why this article does not surprise anyone here at MooPig HQ in sunny Bryan, TX.
Welcome the New Lexicon, Check Mate on the Internet
"[Prosecutor] Sullivan used the pictures to paint Lipton as an unrepentant partier who lived it up while his victim recovered in the hospital. A judge agreed, calling the pictures depraved when sentencing Lipton to two years in prison.
Online hangouts like Facebook and MySpace have offered crime-solving help to detectives and become a resource for employers vetting job applicants. Now the sites are proving fruitful for prosecutors, who have used damaging Internet photos of defendants to cast doubt on their character during sentencing hearings and argue for harsher punishment.
"Social networking sites are just another way that people say things or do things that come back and haunt them," said Phil Malone, director of the cyberlaw clinic at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. "The things that people say online or leave online are pretty permanent."
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (July 19) - Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."
In the age of the Internet, it might not be hard to guess what happened to those pictures: Someone posted them on the social networking site Facebook. And that offered remarkable evidence for Jay Sullivan, the prosecutor handling Lipton's drunken-driving case.
A judge gave Joshua Lipton a two-year prison sentence over a drunken driving charge after the prosecutor uncovered this image of Lipton dressed up in a "Jail Bird" costume two weeks after his accident that nearly killed a woman...."
Read the rest at this LINK, Retrieved here for critical review.. and to be lampooned.
Recently the judicial system required Google to turn over its login information. A judge said "it can be downloaded on four terrabyte storage units." I suppose this means anyone with four terrabytes storage could swipe the information anyway.
MooPig has several articles from publishers about how Human Resources uses the internet to further fact check its applicants. Ignoble ranting in blogging, as it is, can be interpreted however one wants because it still is the public forum it was designed to be.
It is just now, 2008, that the Supreme Court will become a Supreme User in the system as it cleans up all its messes. Meanwhile current supreme users will find a web 2.0 to keep their public forum "private," ..no? Should be fun to watch it develop.
That is why this article does not surprise anyone here at MooPig HQ in sunny Bryan, TX.
Welcome the New Lexicon, Check Mate on the Internet
"[Prosecutor] Sullivan used the pictures to paint Lipton as an unrepentant partier who lived it up while his victim recovered in the hospital. A judge agreed, calling the pictures depraved when sentencing Lipton to two years in prison.
Online hangouts like Facebook and MySpace have offered crime-solving help to detectives and become a resource for employers vetting job applicants. Now the sites are proving fruitful for prosecutors, who have used damaging Internet photos of defendants to cast doubt on their character during sentencing hearings and argue for harsher punishment.
"Social networking sites are just another way that people say things or do things that come back and haunt them," said Phil Malone, director of the cyberlaw clinic at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. "The things that people say online or leave online are pretty permanent."
Web Photos Come Back to Bite Defendants, By ERIC TUCKER, AP
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (July 19) - Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."
In the age of the Internet, it might not be hard to guess what happened to those pictures: Someone posted them on the social networking site Facebook. And that offered remarkable evidence for Jay Sullivan, the prosecutor handling Lipton's drunken-driving case.
A judge gave Joshua Lipton a two-year prison sentence over a drunken driving charge after the prosecutor uncovered this image of Lipton dressed up in a "Jail Bird" costume two weeks after his accident that nearly killed a woman...."
Read the rest at this LINK, Retrieved here for critical review.. and to be lampooned.
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