Due to being banned (temp. exile, Guilt Factor 20) for the use of my favourite profile pic, and likewise seeing my friends banned (completely deleted or temp. exiled) for the same issue, while watching other people who flaunt the faker rule by using a pic of someone they found on the 'net, I have reported HP to FB for Privacy Violations. The submission is as follows. ------------------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ ---------
I'm reporting the Human Pets app to Facebook for privacy violations.
Speci fically, the developer, Mr. Patrick Shyu, has stated that fake profiles are not to be tolerated. This is an acceptable requirement. However, this is enforced as any fake profile image, that is, not a facial or otherwise real image of the (a) person.
Mr. Shyu is the only person who takes action, but any individual may report a person as being fake. Mr. Shyu has then banned immediately if the image displayed is not one of a real person. There are known cases where people have been reported, displaying a false (but human) image on a fake profile, and have had no action taken; yet a false (animated, graphical) image on a real profile, and have had action taken.
The entire decision rests on a brief glimpse of the primary profile image. The HP sub-profiles themselves are not investigated. This is apparently because 'I can't have people reporting fakes all day to fill my inbox.' Admittedly, attempting to be the sole authority in a community of allegedly half a million users would be taxing. I would suggest that a change or clarfication to the definition of a fake profile is what is mandated here.
I believe this is a breach of privacy in two instances.
1. Use of such an image should never be mandated, as there are minors, and other individuals, who wish to maintain their privacy, for whatever reasons. Such individuals may not wish to have any pictures of themselves on their main FB profile at all, let alone available immediately to the entire HP app.
2. HP uses as its primary image your Facebook profile image, such that enforcing this rule in HP acts to force a change across all apps. I believe this falls outside the scope of Mr. Shyu's right to enforce.
I would seek that Mr. Shyu be informed that he cannot require people to display an image of themselves. I am also comfortable with being named as the complainant if necessary, as I have attempted to have this issue addressed with Mr. Shyu directly, without any form of adequate response (which was, specifically, 'HP just isn't the type of town for fakes.')
Many thanks for your time
Gordon ALF Shumway
(not my real name)
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- 16 years, 11 months, 5 days ago