On behalf of Facebook, the law firm Perkins Coie has sent a Cease and Desist letter to Mike van Gaasbeekfrom WORM, the Rotterdam-based experimental artscenter of which MODDR_labs, creators of the Web2.0 Suicide Machine <http://www.suicidemachine.org>, are a part of.. the letter is also made available here: http://suicidemachine.org/download/Web_2.0_Suicide_Machine.pdf more informaiton on what is happening can be found here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/49470 more information on the worm lab can be found here: http://agenda.wormweb.nl/home.php?taal=eng this somehow reminds me of the many over-exaggerated reactions that the uebermorgen project usually gets for their interventions (http://www.ubermorgen.com ). over the years uebermorgen has launched arts projects that point to and make public the contradictions that a lot of bigger companies painstakingly hide through their marketing, advertisement and legal departments in order to save themselves from bad reputation due to their aggressive "survival" tactics. this little spectacle with suicidemachine also coincides with zuckerberg's statement that privacy is dead and facebook wants to be more public: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebooks_zuckerberg_says_the_age_of_pr... but obviously, facebook does not really want "You [to]... have control over what you share" (facebook privacy policy) they want you to share and from there have facebook stipulate what happens with your sharing. they want facebook to be the ultimate vitrine of profiles. a fan of and researcher working on facebook myself, i really hope that they make some changes with respect to letting their users download their own information (at this point, i cannot even make a back up of my friend's email addresses on my own computer), let people delete their information, if necessary in an automated manner), and allow people to share their information outside of facebook, just like facebook integrates a lot of their services on its platform. if they want to be more public, then maybe this should not only mean more control for facebook itself, but also some control rights to its users beyond the "privacy settings". anyways, may the unrest continue and hoping that the arts initiative does not have too much trouble with the corporate lawyers. s. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm