When an angry girlfriend after a harsh break-up made up a fake Facebook profile for her ex, Dana Thornton had herself struggling with a fourth-degree identity theft charge in Dana Thornton set up a fake Facebook page impersonating her ex-boyfriend, allegedly stating he was high all the time, had STDs, and liked prostitutes.
Being so, The NJ Criminal Justice identifies her actions as of offense of identity theft to include; assuming a false identity to falsify and injure or defraud another individual’s’ image.
Since the statute did not mention the use of electronic communication, Miss. Thornton tried to obtain a case dismissal. The jury did not obtain the argument, and the case will go forward.
Reading Chapter 11 and actually coming to an understanding of how much information can be given to us citizens, and how much can be exposed. The statute explicitly says that pretentious a false identity to harm a further person is against the law!
It shouldn't matter what tools are used in the process. In this case a social media blog site Facebook.
Since social media is such huge network that has grown so fast, and the law abating it is not as stable so limited as it should be. Due to the fact that cases like these normally happens a lot mainly for curious reasons.
My question to you since the majority of us have Facebook accounts is, should the legislature try to amend all other laws that could be caught up in the context of online communications?
Great blog post, Tais ... and I like the call to action at the end. You might want to bold the call to action ... or call attention to it with text / sub-head. Well done (an A). -Perri
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