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A DUTCH COURT has ordered Facebook to hand over the identity of someone who posted a revenge porn video on the social network, or face having its servers opened up to an outside investigator.
The Amsterdam District Court’s judgement comes after a 21-year-old Dutch woman sued Facebook after a video of her performing a sex act on her boyfriend was posted on the site in late January.
The video, which was made in 2011 while the woman and her boyfriend were still minors, was removed from Facebook “shortly afterwards”, but can still be found on the Internet.
The judge gave Facebook two weeks to comply in handing over the suspect’s name, email address, mobile phone number, birthdate, computer IP address and the date and time the film was posted, viewed and removed.
Facebook has said it no longer has any relevant information after the account was deleted, according to court documents and a statement.
Should Facebook not comply, “an independent third party must be appointed to investigate the question whether Facebook has or had the details,” and compile a report, the court said in a statement.
A lawyer for the woman in the video, identified as “Chantal” from the southern town of Werkendam, told Dutch media his client’s life “turned into hell.”
‘Facebook records everything’
Her ex-boyfriend denies posting the video, Dutch media reported.
Thomas van Vught told De Telegraaf newspaper that his client did not believe the relevant data had been deleted, saying: “Facebook records everything: including accepted ‘friend’ requests with dates and times.”
Facebook did not indicate whether it would appeal or comply with the ruling, but it stressed the data had been removed from its servers and the company no longer had it.
In an email to AFP, Facebook said:
The offending account was ultimately deleted before we received any request for user data, so all information about it was removed from our servers in accordance with our terms and applicable law.
“We deeply empathise with the victim’s experience and share her desire to keep this kind of nonconsensual imagery off Facebook,” it said.
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People still actually use facebook, amazing.
Never have & never will use it.
Here’s a little tip.
Facebook is WHAT YOU DECIDE TO MAKE OF IT.
Step 1. un-follow anyone that friends you, This gets rid of any of their posts
Step 2. Set you privacy into different groups. Decide what you want to share and with who.
Step 3. Deny people sharing anything on your timeline
Step 4. Join closed groups that interest YOU, this way if you do POST anything in that groug none of your friends will know.
Step 5. Like pages that interest YOU. (News outlets, sports, entertainment)
You now have a news feed THAT you have designed to tailor YOUR needs and interests.
Nothing compares to Facebook if you set it up properly.
Chief is wise and has given me something to ponder.
I’ve close on 600 friends and I’ve all but 8 hidden. The rest of my feed is stuff that interests me.
They all hide you too I guess.
Dunno, Possibly.
No thanks. Zuckerberg called facebook users “dumb f*cks” to trust their data with him. Now he makes billions selling all that data to companies. Not the kind of guy I’d like to support.
Chief Good advice! A friend of my sisters posted an embarrassing photo of me she took of me asleep in my house to my sisters facebook account.. My sister told her to take the photo down.. Your advice is very good but some people are brain dead and have no respect for people’s privacy..
Ur blowies are safe from prying eyes then
And 20 minutes after I wrote this a photo was posted to Facebook of my kids playschool class photo by one of the mummies.. Did she ask the other mothers permission?
Does she not remember who he is?
Read the report. It states that he is saying he did not post it so they want the information from Facebook to prove he did do it.
She will have to suck it up pardon the pun!!
You cannot delete a Facebook account, only deactivate, data is always there, put it up on the public domain, this is what happens…..
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