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I just saw on t.v. @ london they started arresting teenages posting videos of themselves on youtube well the video are bit umh “raw” with guns etc, but then they asked for it I mean learn from r.kelly never video yourself doing something you’d regret!!!..

Now here is a question for you, do everyone in that video desevrved to be arrested ? even though they were unarmed ? or having their informations (dna etc) scanned and added to police registry?

I would assume it’s all going to depend on the local laws. As social networking increasingly moves us into a more global community, it’s going to be very interesting how it all shakes out. If a web site is in the U.S. and a video is posted by a German citizen, how is the burden of evidence handled?

I think it’s good that the German agencies are researching the legality of what they are striving to achieve; after all, if you look at the Duke Lacrosse case in the U.S., you have a group of individuals who were accused of a crime, had their images and names in all newspapers, online, and on television, and it’s looking increasingly like those men are innocent of the crime they were accused of. Yet any prospective employer who will Google those men will see tons of articles linking them to rape charges. There are a lot of factors to consider when it comes to displaying videos and identifying information about crime suspects. Not all of them will be guilty, and one of the things about the Internet is that things are out there forever.

Much more interesting is the fact that German police and other agencies will soon be allowed to do a so called Online Durchsuchung which basically means secretly hacking your pc, implanting a trojan horse and scanning all your data or even switching on the microphone and webcam for surveillance of your flat.

True, but that’s not Web 2.0.