A lawsuit filed last Friday contends Facebook’s data mining creates a special relationship with its users that includes a duty to warn of disturbing posts that threaten violence.The suit was filed by the estate of 74-year-old Cleveland retiree Robert Godwin Sr., who was shot to death last Easter in a video broadcast on Facebook, report the Associated Press, Cleveland.com, BuzzFeed News, Fox 8 Cleveland and WKBW.The shooter, 37-year-old Steve Stephens, killed himself two days after the murder during a police chase.Stephens had posted on Facebook that he had lost everything he ever had due to gambling. “I not going to go into details,” he wrote, “but I’m a my breaking point I’m really on some murder shit. FB you have 4 minutes to tell me why I shouldn’t be on death row!!!! I’m dead serious #teamdeathrow.”The suit, filed in Cleveland, contends that Facebook collects information on its users to generate billions of dollars in revenue. … [Read more...] about Suit claims Facebook had duty to warn of disturbing posts by man who posted fatal shooting video
Suit claims Facebook had duty to warn of disturbing posts by man who killed retiree in online video
A lawsuit filed last Friday contends Facebook’s data mining creates a special relationship with its users that includes a duty to warn of disturbing posts that threaten violence.The suit was filed by the estate of 74-year-old Cleveland retiree Robert Godwin Sr., who was shot to death last Easter in a video broadcast on Facebook, report the Associated Press, Cleveland.com, BuzzFeed News, Fox 8 Cleveland and WKBW.The shooter, 37-year-old Steve Stephens, killed himself two days after the murder during a police chase.Stephens had posted on Facebook that he had lost everything he ever had due to gambling. “I not going to go into details,” he wrote, “but I’m a my breaking point I’m really on some murder shit. FB you have 4 minutes to tell me why I shouldn’t be on death row!!!! I’m dead serious #teamdeathrow.”The suit, filed in Cleveland, contends that Facebook collects information on its users to generate billions of dollars in revenue. … [Read more...] about Suit claims Facebook had duty to warn of disturbing posts by man who killed retiree in online video
Modern Marriages Fixed On Facebook Bound To Fail, Observes Gujarat HC [Read Order]
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Gujarat High Court Judge Justice JB Pardiwala has observed that modern marriages fixed on Facebook are bound to fail.Justice Pardiwala made this comment while hearing a petition filed under Section 482 of Criminal Procedure Code for quashing FIR filed under Sections 498A, 323, 504 read with Section 114 of the Indian Penal Code and under Sections 3 and 5 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. FactsX got married with Y on 8th February 2015. According to the first informant (X), she came in contact with Y [accused no.1 in FIR] on Facebook and thereafter, they started meeting with each other. They got married and within two months thereafter problems cropped up in their marital life. The husband [Y] is not a party in the proceedings before the High Court. However, the father-in- law, mother-in-law and brother-in-law have also been arraigned as the accused. They filed the present petition to quash the proceedings against them. But he allegations in the FIR are, by and large, against the … [Read more...] about Modern Marriages Fixed On Facebook Bound To Fail, Observes Gujarat HC [Read Order]
EU court rules Facebook must face Austria privacy lawsuit
[JURIST] The European Court of Justice [official website] on Thursday dismissed [judgment] Austrian attorney Max Schrems' class action privacy lawsuit against Facebook, ruling that Schrems can sue Facebook in his home country as an individual. Schrems has continually campaigned against Facebook's use of users' personal information. Schrems was a party to the case against "Safe Harbor," the EU-US data sharing agreement. In that case, the EU court issued a ruling [judgement] in support of Schrems after he successfully proved that Facebook was not protecting its users against US intelligence. In Schrems' current class action suit, Facebook argued that Schrems did not fall under the consumer protections in Europe. The court agreed with this argument. A court press release [text, PDF] stated that the activities of, "publishing books, giving lectures, operating websites, fundraising and being assigned the claims of numerous consumers for the purpose of their enforcement in judicial … [Read more...] about EU court rules Facebook must face Austria privacy lawsuit
Facebook Allowing Users To ‘Like’ Things Won’t Confer Jurisdiction In The State Where The Webpage Is Viewed: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]
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The Delhi High Court has ruled that mere hosting of a webpage on Facebook would not confer jurisdiction in the State where such page is viewed.“…it is clear that merely hosting a web page on Facebook would not be sufficient to confer jurisdiction on a Court where the defendant does not carry on business. Merely because Facebook is an interactive site and permits the users to offer comments or indicate whether they “like what they see” on the site, would not be sufficient to provide a cause of action for passing off in a jurisdiction where the defendant does not enter into any commercial transaction,” Justice Vibhu Bakhru explained.The Court was hearing an Application filed by ‘News Nation Gujarat’, praying that the passing off suit filed against it by ‘News Nation Networks Private Limited’ be dismissed as it does not disclose a “clear right to sue”. It had further contended that the Court did not have jurisdiction to … [Read more...] about Facebook Allowing Users To ‘Like’ Things Won’t Confer Jurisdiction In The State Where The Webpage Is Viewed: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]