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Is it legal for someone to monitor a facebook or myspace account? - Psyber Kayos - 02-28-2013 11:04 PM

My best friend and her friends are having their Facebook and MySpace accounts monitored by a private group. They are all underage. I wanted to know if it is legal, and if it is, under what circumstaces.
If it is legal, they lied to me. Isn't that like demoralization of character?
Thank you, but what about like a police agency?


- RastaFaRa22 - 02-28-2013 11:12 PM

It is legal because all those tracking sites have disclaimers. And by the way you can't track Facebook, it is completely protected and there are no current trackers that can access it. And for Myspace trackers, it is possible to block your IP address.


- Dean B - 02-28-2013 11:12 PM

Perfectly legal.
You'll prob's pick up several tracking cookies everyday, they follow your movemnt all over the web not jsut Myspace or Facebook.
what they do with the data is where it can cross over from legal to illegal, majority just change the ad's that are shown on your web pages, to better match what you do n search for on the web.
I don't completely understand what you mean by " monitored by a private group". are they being monitored cos they asked like the app's that show who's been on your page, or cos they are underage? but about the only way not to be monitored is to not have a Myspace or Facebook account, you post the info on your profile online the rest of the world can see it so you got be pretty open minded on your privacy.
The police won't really get involved with "someone's watching my mates on Myspace". If it was something like the Lori Drew case then maybe.