Court Demands Private Facebook Data

Defeat Globalism writes in with a Canadian court decision that has ordered a man suing over injuries from a car accident to answer questions about content on his private "friends only" Facebook page. "Lawyers for Janice Roman, the defendant in the lawsuit, believe information posted on John Leduc's private Facebook site — normally accessible only to his approved 'friends' — may be relevant to his claim an accident in Lindsay in 2004 lessened his enjoyment of life. As a result of the ruling by Justice David Brown of Ontario's Superior Court of Justice, Leduc must now submit to cross-examination by Roman's lawyers about what his Facebook page contains. Brown's Feb. 20 ruling also makes clear that lawyers must now explain to their clients 'in appropriate cases' that postings on Facebook or other networking sites — such as MySpace, LinkedIn and even blogs — may be relevant to allegations in a lawsuit, said Tariq Remtulla, a Toronto lawyer who has been following the issue."

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Re:*BSD is Dying

[mysidia]

This is an example of why some stuff (like Facebook private pages), should simply stay private, and courts should not be permitted access to it in any just society.

The simple fact, that random pokes and posts on walls can be plain wrong.

Much like this one. FreeBSD never had anything to do with BSDI, and it's not dying.

MacOS X market share has increased from 6% to above 8% in the past 18 months, and every copy of OS X contains BSD.

The iPhone is also a very popular handset and contains embedded Darwin-based BSD kernel.

BSD usage continues to grow, especially in countless embedded applications, including virtual appliances like SpamTitan, and enormous numbers of pfSense and m0n0wall installs all over the world.

Re:Current Mood: Screwed

[Hurricane78]

Why would any independed person work for the idiots that run pretty much every single company out there??
Who wants to realize the ideas of others and be a passive tool that will fade into irrelevance, with all the credit going to them, when they get a lucky hit, or you forced them to work on one of your ideas?

Nah. I am *very very happy* that I am self-employed, or however you call that in English, when you do not have to do what any boss or client tells you. (I happen to have the luck of having people who like to pay money for what I like to do. And I recommend to anyone, to find these things too.)