Boy, BIG BROTHER really is watching, on more levels then we even know. I was leery of getting a Facebook page from the get go….. And now I have more good reasons for it. The more these types of situations get exposed, the more I think I will opt out. Scary, very scary.
So what this article is saying is that I need to start a blog dedicated to the principle of Jury Nullification and I may never have to sit on a jury in a criminal case?
It is also good to know that the only thing you need to become “not racist” is a picture of you with someone of another race.
This article could also be retitled “in case you need another reason to hate lawyers.”
Social networking can affect your career too. I’ve built my online profiles to make me look very responsible, family oriented, and health conscious. Lets face it, clients, employers and business associates use profile information to make decisions on how trustworthy you are. Its kind of like building a brand, it can help or hurt you when other’s judgments about you will determine whether you get an account, job, promotion or raise. Now we can add juror selection to that list. Kind of sad that we have to walk that line in all aspects of our lives, but like they say, it is what is…
Also in the news recently is the arrival of “persona management” software. Basically we now have a way to create, maintain, and seemingly authenticate lots of fake ‘personas’ on the internet. So one guy sitting at a desk can have USB keys with 50 different ‘personas.’ Each persona has a Facebook, LinkedIn, GMail etc, and all of the different sites serve to convincingly make the persona appear to be valid. New IP addresses are pulled for each persona and masking traffic is utilized. This prevents the various personas from contaminating one another.
So in theory, one guy can sit at a desk and have the appearance of being fifty unique, real people.
In an era where you can simply make up a persona or spoof information, should real-time Googling of jurors really be permitted?
Take another recent news story — a disgruntled young woman who just broke up with her boyfriend spammed Google Images with dozens of versions of the same image, all with different humiliating captions. Should those images be used to disqualify a juror?
Or how about someone who was accused and resoundingly acquitted of a repulsive crime? Say someone was accused of rape and their name was dragged through the media repeatedly by a leaky prosecutor’s office despite zero evidence or motive. That person is acquitted, yet a Google search still pulls up countless news stories predating the trial that link the person’s name with a rape trial.
There are myriad reasons not to permit this sort of activity. And the motivation to allow it seems to be limited to the dubious practice of jury manipulation.
It’s not really possible to stop this kind of use. The only thing you can do is be careful with what you post online. Most working people don’t really want to serve on a jury anyway, so as long as both sides are googling you, any red flags to either side will get you removed from consideration.
Boy, BIG BROTHER really is watching, on more levels then we even know. I was leery of getting a Facebook page from the get go….. And now I have more good reasons for it. The more these types of situations get exposed, the more I think I will opt out. Scary, very scary.
So what this article is saying is that I need to start a blog dedicated to the principle of Jury Nullification and I may never have to sit on a jury in a criminal case?
It is also good to know that the only thing you need to become “not racist” is a picture of you with someone of another race.
This article could also be retitled “in case you need another reason to hate lawyers.”
Social networking can affect your career too. I’ve built my online profiles to make me look very responsible, family oriented, and health conscious. Lets face it, clients, employers and business associates use profile information to make decisions on how trustworthy you are. Its kind of like building a brand, it can help or hurt you when other’s judgments about you will determine whether you get an account, job, promotion or raise. Now we can add juror selection to that list. Kind of sad that we have to walk that line in all aspects of our lives, but like they say, it is what is…
Also in the news recently is the arrival of “persona management” software. Basically we now have a way to create, maintain, and seemingly authenticate lots of fake ‘personas’ on the internet. So one guy sitting at a desk can have USB keys with 50 different ‘personas.’ Each persona has a Facebook, LinkedIn, GMail etc, and all of the different sites serve to convincingly make the persona appear to be valid. New IP addresses are pulled for each persona and masking traffic is utilized. This prevents the various personas from contaminating one another.
So in theory, one guy can sit at a desk and have the appearance of being fifty unique, real people.
In an era where you can simply make up a persona or spoof information, should real-time Googling of jurors really be permitted?
Take another recent news story — a disgruntled young woman who just broke up with her boyfriend spammed Google Images with dozens of versions of the same image, all with different humiliating captions. Should those images be used to disqualify a juror?
Or how about someone who was accused and resoundingly acquitted of a repulsive crime? Say someone was accused of rape and their name was dragged through the media repeatedly by a leaky prosecutor’s office despite zero evidence or motive. That person is acquitted, yet a Google search still pulls up countless news stories predating the trial that link the person’s name with a rape trial.
There are myriad reasons not to permit this sort of activity. And the motivation to allow it seems to be limited to the dubious practice of jury manipulation.
It’s not really possible to stop this kind of use. The only thing you can do is be careful with what you post online. Most working people don’t really want to serve on a jury anyway, so as long as both sides are googling you, any red flags to either side will get you removed from consideration.