I am still outraged about the malicious creation of an unauthorized LinkedIn account. Although the facts in the BBC article below are different, there is an interesting parallel in the fact that a women in the US is suing the US government for having done the same. There must be an agency in Europe like the US-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), that can represent the victim of such a crime.

Woman sues US government over fake Facebook page

The Department of Justice acknowledged that one of its agents had created the page without telling Sondra Arquiett.

Ms Arquiett said she was not, however, notified that this operation would involve the creation of a "publicly available" Facebook page in the name of Sondra Prince, an alias she used.

Ms Arquiett said the action had breached her rights to privacy, equal protection under the law and due process, and has demanded more than $250,000 (£155,560) in damages.

The US government acknowledged that Mr Sinnigen [government agent] had created the page and had used it to send a "friend" request to a wanted fugitive as well as accepting requests from others, but denied it had been made "publicly available" in a wider sense.

Regarding the wider allegation, the US government stated that Ms Arquiett had "relinquished any expectation of privacy she may have had to photographs on her cell phone" when she agreed to let officers search and use information on the device.

However, it acknowledged that she "did not give express permission for the use of photographs contained on her phone on an undercover Facebook page".

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a US-based online privacy campaign group, has described the government's rationale as being "laughable".

But legal experts have said that the case might hang on exactly what Ms Arquiett had consented to.

Facebook's terms and conditions state that users cannot create accounts for others without permission, but a spokeswoman for the firm declined to comment on this specific instance."