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If lawyers are reading this, a question:

Our governments are treating our emails more and more like real mail (aka. letters).

Is there not a law prohibiting third party people or companies to mess with(fake) my mail addresses?

Fact is, I do not want a facebook email address. And I have given no consent for my email address to be changed.



It's more like someone sending a change-of-address card to the post office to have your mail delivered to their Mailboxes Etc. store.


That's actually a really good analogy. And the GP is right. There should definitely be some laws to prohibit these kinds of things that Facebook is attempting (doing), now that electronic mail/communication is becoming standard.


As a matter of fact, the (US) Postal Inspector considers this to be Identity Theft.


Interesting. I wonder why no legal action has been taken against Facebook for this recent fiasco... or has there?




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