But it's important in general to have a cooperative approach - not an actively antagonistic one. You don't just ignore police requests, and you can even go as far as Google recently did and publish how many requests from Australian law enforcement authorities you receive, and how many you don't fulfil. This sort of stuff is fairly basic: you obey the law.įor internet companies, it's important to know their rights - and Australians would expect them to. When you consider the case about Sydney girl Nona Belomesoff who was allegedly recently murdered because she apparently went to meet two men she met on Facebook, not cooperating with police is a big deal. An article on the subject described Facebook's relationship with Australian police as 'hampering' its investigations.

It won't cooperate with Australian police: just last week the Australian Federal Police's head of high-tech crime operations, Neil Gaughan, flew to the US to discuss concerns with other global authorities about Facebook not providing authorities with intelligence they need for investigations.

All it contributes to Australia is taxes. Other technology companies such as Google (and even Microsoft) have large Australian presences, employ staff in Australia and depend on our country's technical capability. However, although Facebook has some 1400 staff globally, it is only known to have one in Australia - its sales manager for the Australian region, Paul Borrud.

Taking out but not putting back in: Facebook would like to make money from Australian advertisers, who are keen to market to the site's very strong local user-base.

My aim is to get you to question: is Facebook making any effort - at all - to be a nice Australian corporate citizen and match its values to our own? Or is it completely ignoring them and considering us not worth paying attention to? So these are the five reasons why Australians should quit Facebook.

Instead, I'll look at the corporate history of the social networking site's operations in Australia. In this article I'm not going to go into all the obvious global reasons why you should delete your Facebook account - privacy, security of your data and so on. And it's my opinion that other Australians should follow my example and delete their own Facebook accounts too. Commentary Over the weekend, I systematically deleted all of my data from out-of-control social networking site Facebook and repetitively requested that the site deactivate, delete and stop storing my account.

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