Hello 'peeple'

[peterb]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry about this, the nasty side of human nature

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10...o_rate_humans/

[shaithis]

My understanding is that the premise of the apps breaks the DPA. Storing personal opinions on people would place the app owners in very dodgy water.....and that seems to be the sole premise of the app!

[Ttaskmaster]

What tha......????!!!
This is not legal, surely?

I'mma get this and put up a profile for Saracen, just for the laughs when he takes the company on and destroys them!!

[TheAnimus]

Please refer to our terms and conditions that you will have to agree to before joining and while being a user of our app. We do not tolerate profanity, bullying,

How the hell is having people rated in a public forum not considered bullying?

[Splash]

https://twitter.com/AbiWilks/status/649378052502343680

[Allen]

Good luck getting this absurd (cr)app off the ground, so many people will be adverse to it. And regardless of where they are in the world, this HAS to breach data protection/libel laws. If it doesn't, I suspect their servers will be under constant attack and DDoS if the law won't stop them.

However, the thing I found more slightly amusing is that after 5 minutes of hearing about this company and looking in to them, they are apparently deleting lots of negative comments about them and the app from Twitter and FB et al. They are even trying to get Twitter to shut down an account that is mocking the two of them. Yet they want to create an app allowing anyone to do exactly that to anyone else, without the ability for the target to stop it? Talk about hypocrisy!

[Macman]

Mark Z and FB come to mind....

[Jonj1611]

This is quite shocking to be honest, I don't have twitter, facebook or anything and to think someone can create a profile in your name without your consent is pretty disgusting. Everywhere you look though its negative comments, in fact I haven't seen anyone say anything good about it. Looks like a petition has been started to! Petition

[Lucio]

Maybe someone decided to move April Fool's Day forward 6 months?

[directhex]

This is quite shocking to be honest, I don't have twitter, facebook or anything and to think someone can create a profile in your name without your consent is pretty disgusting. Everywhere you look though its negative comments, in fact I haven't seen anyone say anything good about it. Looks like a petition has been started to! Petition

It's getting a lot of support from communities known for being bad - white supremacists, GamerGaters, etc.

[Jonj1611]

I don't know much about the law, but is it even legal in the UK?

directhex - Do you mean support for or against it?

[kalniel]

I don't know much about the law, but is it even legal in the UK?

Being as it's not in the UK, kind of a moot point. We do have regulations around liable/slander but they rely on being able to prove that someone deliberately said/wrote something defamatory about a clearly identifiable individual/company and that it's not true.

[Stringent]

The Internet revolts

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10...der_slandered/

[Jonj1611]

Yes you are correct, but I never said it was in the UK, I was asking if it was legal in the UK.

And fair enough, I still don't think someone should be allowed to create a profile about you in your name without your permission though.

[kalniel]

And fair enough, I still don't think someone should be allowed to create a profile about you in your name without your permission though.

I'm going to have to stop following the Queen on twitter aren't I?

https://twitter.com/Queen_UK

[Jonj1611]

Ah yes but aren't public figures supposed to be parodied lol