Oxford University uses Facebook photos as proof for disciplinary hearings

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(AFP) — LONDON - Just who do you want seeing your photos on Facebook, one of the fastest-rising of the world’s new social networking websites? If you’re a student celebrating the end of exams with traditional end-of-term high-jinks, the answer just might not include your college disciplinary committee.

Just days after a US beauty queen put her crown in danger, posting mildly risqué photos on Facebook which were promptly leaked to tabloid newspapers across America, students at Oxford University were ruing allowing their exam celebration photos to appear on Facebook, after receiving disciplinary warnings from the university.

In a move highlighting the implications for privacy of the wave of social networking sites being set up worldwide from Facebook to MySpace, Bebo...