I've just seen a notice on a member's profile page warning Sydney University of legal action if their information was used for research purposes etc.
Anyone know anything about this?
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Quote by Paddy
I've just seen a notice on a member's profile page warning Sydney University of legal action if their information was used for research purposes etc.
Anyone know anything about this?
M
Yeah it clogs up peoples profile and tbh means nothing, I wouldn't worry.
:lol2: Nicely put Paddy and its fairly accurate too :thumbup:
To Sydney university or any other institution using this site for research purposes: If you really want to use my profile I'm more than happy for you to do so as long as you fly me over there - all expenses paid - to consult.:thumbup:
As far as I know the "legal warning" popped up on another site and has been virally spreading around the net ever since.
Let's face it, people can threaten any legal action they want but it has absolutely no basis in law. And who in their right mind would even try to take on an Australian government body using the UK legal system?!!
As far as I know the "legal warning" popped up on another site and has been virally spreading around the net ever since.
Let's face it, people can threaten any legal action they want but it has absolutely no basis in law. And who in their right mind would even try to take on an Australian government body using the UK legal system?!!
Isn't Aussie and Brit law able to be used cross boundaries? Something to do with the Aussies having a British style legal system where Aussie precedent has the same legal binding as Brit precedent. Anyway, this could all be bollox and it came to me in a drunken dream one night.
The warning does have a legal standing in law. It was explained by a lady from this site who had a bit of knowledge about these kind of things. However, if you put it on you would also have to be willing to go to court and out yourself in a public domain. The best thing is to think what you post or upload (photos). If you do not really want it being put up else where, then do not add it in the first place to an internet sytem.
Instead of clogging up forums with inane drivel (similar to what I do on a daily basis :silly: ).
Dave_Notts
The warning does have a legal standing in law. It was explained by a lady from this site who had a bit of knowledge about these kind of things. However, if you put it on you would also have to be willing to go to court and out yourself in a public domain. The best thing is to think what you post or upload (photos). If you do not really want it being put up else where, then do not add it in the first place to an internet sytem.
Instead of clogging up forums with inane drivel (similar to what I do on a daily basis :silly: ).
Dave_Notts
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Quote by Dave__Notts
Isn't Aussie and Brit law able to be used cross boundaries? Something to do with the Aussies having a British style legal system where Aussie precedent has the same legal binding as Brit precedent. Anyway, this could all be bollox and it came to me in a drunken dream one night
Having just (4 hrs ago) finished a piece of work based on this very subject I would like to point out that in 1986 The Australian Act made australia completely independent of UK law in all respects, including precedent.
The post is viral and not legal in this country anyway.
Does nobody else wonder how many years the Sydney University has been accused of having a swingers sex life laboratory? Its at least nine by my calculation!
The thing about this 'warning' is that by using the words "Sydney University" on your profile you're actually (somewhat paradoxically) making it more likely that Sydney University will find your profile in particular, amongst and perhaps instead of, all the other millions of swingers out there!
Sexlightened
Dont forget this site and any other site with its main office in Britain is governed by the Data Protection Act and the data commisioner tends to get a little pissed off with people who break that
The "sydney thing" is nothing to do with sydney university at least in the way we percieve it to be, it was invented and is used by servers such as google, the idea being, create a situation, then see how quickly it can spread around the net, keywords within the disclaimer trigger collecting programs to monitor exactly how many times it is copied and pasted or entered onto profiles for example.
The basic idea worked and is still working, from it's first introduction it has spread like a harmless virus around websites on the net, basically harmless but clogging up websites such as this one using a lot of useable server space, it was very common on another site then spread to this one, it can also be found on many other sites from trainspotting enthusiasts to stamp collectors but is far more common on adult sites where people consider thier personal privacy more important.
It is a very good way of following user patterns and seeing where such things find the best following, basically a tool to assist marketing brains, so adding it to your profile is actually highlighting you not protecting you.
Most things you put on the net are in many courts considered to be public information since you control the actual placing of information on sites like this, your profile is written to be viewed, if you don't want people to know certain thing about you don't put them online is thier attitude.
The basic idea worked and is still working, from it's first introduction it has spread like a harmless virus around websites on the net, basically harmless but clogging up websites such as this one using a lot of useable server space, it was very common on another site then spread to this one, it can also be found on many other sites from trainspotting enthusiasts to stamp collectors but is far more common on adult sites where people consider thier personal privacy more important.
It is a very good way of following user patterns and seeing where such things find the best following, basically a tool to assist marketing brains, so adding it to your profile is actually highlighting you not protecting you.
Most things you put on the net are in many courts considered to be public information since you control the actual placing of information on sites like this, your profile is written to be viewed, if you don't want people to know certain thing about you don't put them online is thier attitude.
