On the adult sites I sometimes frequent, I’ve been seeing warnings like the following (with variations) more and more often. None of my web crawling has shown me any REAL reason for these warnings and without further data, I’m ready to call urban legend.
*WARNING: Sydney University and Any and all other institutions using this or any FriendFinder site or its associated sites for projects - You do not have permission from me to use any of my profile or pictures in any form or forum both current and future. If you have or do, it will be considered a violation of my privacy and will be subject to legal action.
( I suggest the rest of you post this notice)*
Four questions:
Are there any real studies that have been KNOWN to use profile information from adult sites without permission?
Are they STILL doing so?
Do these warnings actually have any LEGAL meaning beyond rights that already exist to pursue action against such use?
Do you know anything about this that I haven’t covered?