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Judge forces Facebook to out fake profile creators

Priestwithcane.jpgThe person who created a fake Facebook profile for Dean Tim Puntarelli of Roncalli High School in Indianapolis likely felt comfortably shrouded in Facebook's seeming anonymity as he sent "inappropriate" pictures from the account to students. No longer. A local judge ordered Facebook to reveal the prankster's IP address to Puntarelli; the Archdiocese of Indianapolis which runs the school calls it "identity theft." (Photo of a priest with a cane by Paweł Kabański)

9:00 AM on Tue May 13 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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