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I found one of the articles this one links to to be very insightful - http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creator-survives-ad-board-the/ http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creato... > Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06 said he was accused of breaching security, violating copyrights and violating individual privacy by creating the website > The charges were based on a complaint from the computer services department over his unauthorized use of on-line facebook photographs, he said. > “Issues about violating people’s privacy don’t seem to be surmountable,” he wrote at that point. “I’m not willing to risk insulting anyone.”