Be careful what you put up in Facebook or Myspace photos.
The latest story on Nine News tonight (online), is how defendants in drink-driving cases are having old Facebook photos used against them in evidence in court cases. Prosecutors across the US now routinely trawl Facebook / Myspace looking for any evidence that can undermine a defendants credibility in a court case.
A couple of young kids, 20 and 22, are now doing stints of 2 and 4 years respectively, as their Facebook photos did not reflect very well when presented in court....simple things like being photographed at a party, holding a beer, 2 weeks after a driving incident involving alcohol......yeh its crap, especially when in any other similiar case without a photo, the defendant would have been getting a community service order !!
sometimes the Net is not your friend !
