Meredith Kercher is dead yet I know so much about her. I have seen her personal photos and messages to her close friends.
What is more amazing, and possibly more damning if the current investigation results in a trial is that I know even more about the accused. Where does this stop being reporting and start becoming an invasion of privacy or in extreme cases a contempt of court?
Facebook, Bebo and Wayn are the biggest culprits. Just how secure are these networking sites? Did the accused have private profiles?
Even if they were private profiles, it would not be hard for anyone to get hold of the personal details posted on these sites, any of their contacts could access the site and pass on the information and provide information and passwords required to access the profiles.
Selling the trust of your Facebook friends may be the new version of selling your story to the tabloids.
I can’t access Meredith Kercher’s Facebook profile or Amanda Knox’s Myspace account. This would suggest that their profiles and private information is only available to “friends”. Either one of these friends has passed on their access privileges to the press, or the press has some mega hacks.
Or worse still, Facebook is opening up these profiles for all to see.
I think the latter two options are infeasible and would result in a host of privacy issues.
So, we are left with the possibility that their “friends” are passing on this information.
Facebook as a social networking phenomenon means that we network with people we know, have known and even those we want to know better.
This means that all those people listed as friends are not actually our nearest and dearest, they can be people we went to school with fifteen years ago, our friends siblings or even friends of friends.
Not exactly an impenetrable circle of trust.
I may be completely on the wrong track but I am going with the theory that Amanda Knox’s, Meredith Kercher’s and Raffaele Sollecito’s friends have done the dirty.
Otherwise, how would I know that Meredith thought she had recently been indulging in too many of Perugia’s famous chocolates? Or that Sollecito described himself on Wyan.com as someone who ”possessed strong emotions capable of suprising you”?- a statement that somehow now takes on a sinister tone.
Do I need to know this? Or really want to know this?
Do I have any right to know this?
1 comment:
AK's myspace profile was public until Nov 7. she had most recently logged in on the 5th. only after her name was linked to the crime did someone log in and make her profile private.
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