Sep. 27th, 2010

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What you post online can be used against you:

What’s important about the Romano case is that the plaintiff was ordered to provide access not only to the private information on her FB profile but also to deleted pages, meaning that those of you with a court case who are going to delete certain photos and posts may not be safe as your adversary may get those deleted sections as well. There is no doubt that in civil, criminal and especially matrimonial cases, lawyers will be demanding the turnover of this material. Folks who are litigants in court cases need to be mindful of this new exposure of your private life. They should pay attention to Judge Spinner’s words:

Given the millions of users, in this environment, privacy is no longer grounded in reasonable expectations, but rather in some theoretical protocol better known as wishful thinking.

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