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Privacy Round-Up: Myspace, Craigslist and issues of privacy

Posted in July 6th, 2009
Published in Privacy News

Myspace lawsuit: It was just over a year ago that we first posted about the Myspace suicide case. Lori Drew, a middle-aged Midwestern mom, allegedly created a fake Myspace account of a teen boy in order to harass 13-year-old Megan Meier, a neighbor girl who took her own life when her online “boyfriend” turned against [...]

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Remembering Megan Meier – When MySpace Privacy Goes Wrong

Posted in June 16th, 2008
Published in Privacy News

The recent case of the St. Louis mom Lori Drew posing as a boy and ridiculing 13 year-old Megan Meier is obviously horrible. Drew created a fake MySpace profile and then told the emotional 13 year old girl that “the world would be better without her..”
It resulted in the girl hanging herself, and a large [...]

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