The concept of identity theft has long been a theme of the science fiction world. Jack Finney’s 1954 classic novel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (later adapted into film no less than four times), is driven by uncertainty over who is a clone — duplicated by an amorphous extra-terrestrial race — and who remains human. While the consequences are certainly more mundane, and the means more temporal, online identity theft is presenting a similar real-world scenario that has the potential to affect anybody with Internet access. Take, for example, the case of Fafi Merhi, who has now had parts of her profile “cloned” on Facebook twice. In both instances, Merhi says,the perpetrator created an account under a different name from hers while using all of her pictures. She or he then attempted to add her friends, and then afterwards their friends, on a few occasions (that she was told about)
