Brazilian court has fined Orkut $500,000 for allowing fake profile on the site. Civil court case, filed by race car driver Rubens Barrichello in 2006 has his fake profile depicted him as a toy turtle.
In another India incident, Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) arrested a man for allegedly posting obscene (morphed) photographs of a former colleague on Orkut. After profiling the victim as a call girl, he mentioned her residence and mobile numbers in the profile as well (via).
Given the way profiles can be maligned, do you see a need for profile authentication service for social networks in India?
Twitter does have the service for authenticating celebrity profiles, but what about Orkut/FB etc? Will you pay for that ‘Verified’ seal?
Is is possible to verify each and every person’s account? Well, practically, it’s impossible.
I simply hated to see this article been lifted from TC. Did not expect this.
Crap! What do you mean lifted? This news is all over the web now..
seriously stupid..TC doesn’t has the other part of the story..I guess ppl tend to use social media for letting off their personal frustration
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