Legal papers served by Facebook
There's a story on BBC today about an Australian court granting permission to serve papers via Facebook.
Serving papers is a costly and complex process. Could we get to the point where electronic addresses have as much legal 'meaning' as physical addresses? And at what point does an electronic address become an electronic identity? For example, if you can serve papers to a 'place' in Facebook could you serve them a 'person' in Second Life?