Twittering about eating disorders

Leire Pajín

SPAIN Ministers are at present absent from their offices, busy campaigning. In any case, they are only temporary until the next government is sworn in (after the General Elections on November 20). But some of them left behind at least a few things to think about. One of these was Health Minister Leire Pajín, who, having taken the social network Twitter to task over profiles encouraging eating disorders, later  announced that she would be raising the matter at a meeting of European Union health representatives in October. There is no news that she did, but she did say at the time, "this is a problem that is not just ours but is much broader and it's something that is spread across social networks. We have to stand together and ask Twitter and other social networks to help us to block or stop the proliferation of such profiles."Indeed, Spain last week petitioned Twitter to remove controversial profiles from its pages, but the US-based company refused.>>>

Two charged with identity theft via Tuenti

LA LINEA (Agencies) Two women, aged 19 and 20 were arrested as the suspects in a case of identity theft when they created a profile on Tuenti (a social network much in favour by Spanish youth in which Telefónica has a large share). They used the name and photographs, as well as other identifying features of a minor, and used obscenities on the profile they created. The National Police managed to trace two computers via their IP address to two friends of the minor, who had reported the incideent. The older women are 'at the dispoal of the courts'.