Status Update… loses court case?
If you’re thinking that your Facebook and Myspace information are all in the safe hands of your privacy settings; think again – especially if you’re involved in a personal injury lawsuit. A recent suit between a woman and Steelcase, an office furniture company, blamed the woman’s serious injuries on a defected chair.
The only flaw in the argument was that the woman’s Facebook and Myspace accounts showed a much different side of her life than the severely-injured and confined-to-bed image she offered the court. In fact, the defense claimed that her social media photos showed her smiling and active and well outside the confines of her own home.
That being the case, the judge ordered access to the private information on both accounts, claiming that the plaintiff had already consented to sharing the information with others in creating the profiles.
Kind of makes you second-guess just how harmless that social media world is, huh?