Iran Court Summons Mark Zuckerberg For Facebook Privacy Violations

wiredmikey (1824622) writes "An Iranian judge has summoned Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to answer allegations that his company's apps have breached people's privacy, it was reported Tuesday. The court in Fars province ordered that Zuckerberg address unspecified 'violation of privacy' claims made by Iranians over the reach of Facebook-owned apps, ISNA news agency reported. 'Based on the judge's verdict, the Zionist manager of Facebook... should report to the prosecutor's office to defend himself and make compensation for damages,' Rouhollah Momen-Nasab, a senior Iranian Internet security official, told ISNA. Access to social networks, including Twitter and Facebook, are routinely blocked by Iranian authorities, as are other websites considered un-Islamic or detrimental to the regime."

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Yea, I'm sure he gives a rat's ass.

[drunkennewfiemidget]

Somewhere, Mark Zuckerberg is *still* laughing.

Re:Yea, I'm sure he gives a rat's ass.

[sabri]

Somewhere, Mark Zuckerberg is *still* laughing.

No, somewhere, Facebook is consulting attorneys on how to avoid a Fatwa so he won't end up like Salman Rushdie, or worse, Theo van Gogh.

Re:Yea, I'm sure he gives a rat's ass.

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Facebook's unique proposition is that it can be both "un-Islamic" and "un-American" at the same time, doing the same thing.

Re:Yea, I'm sure he gives a rat's ass.

[Russ1642]

They're assembling a massive database of personal information. Sound pretty American to me.

Re:Yea, I'm sure he gives a rat's ass.

[Anonymous Coward]

Um, some friends of mine got a fatwa from their imam about marriage recommendations last week. The word "fatwa" is the same thing as asking a member of the clergy for written advice.

Yes, there are problems with Muslim extremists, but I do wish people would stop turning the words "advice" and "school" into things meaning stuff they shouldn't?

Lets be real here: Iran has its problems, especially with extremists However, the country itself isn't evil, and Iranians in general see through the political BS more than Americans see through the CNN/Fox News/MSNBC charade.

In the scheme of things, the Iran court is a propaganda item to shore up the hard-liners who run the country. MZ isn't going to Tehran, nor will he be extradited there. If there were an extradition treaty, virtually every US and European citizen would be in deep trouble. The Iranian population knows this charade, and they likely will continue to quietly keep to their VPNs and continue to avoid the morality police/IRG members.

Again, one needs to separate Iran (the government from the Iranian people.) The people are smart enough not to use a jube as a waterslide.

Re:Good luck on that... he won't appear

[gstoddart]

Regardless of ... well, pretty much anything, I wouldn't go anywhere near Iran.

South park episode?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, sounds like an emmy award winning south park episode

Re:Good luck on that... he won't appear

[Jason Levine]

Zuckerberg wouldn't even need to say anything. He'd be jailed as an evil Zionist spy or some other nonsense the moment he tried to leave the country. I wouldn't fare any better with the last name Levine. You couldn't pay me enough money to travel to Iran.

Re:Nothing short of a Fatwa...

[Jason Levine]

I'm sorry, but Facebook just reorganized how they display postings and the Fatwa didn't appear. Maybe they would like to advertise with Facebook to ensure that their Fatwa status updates appear at the top of everyone's feeds?

Can we send Justin Beiber as his ambassador?

[Supp0rtLinux]

If we send the Beeb's in Zuck's place I think we could make everyone happy. Iran gets a white boy they can prosecute or just hold without cause for a really long time and the US no longer has to put up with his illegal actions or that noise he purports to call music. Considering there's a petition before the White House to have him deported back to the Canada anyway, I vote we offer this as an alternative.

... nobody is talking about the privacy violations

[damn_registrars]

Interesting that none of the comments so far talk about the blatant privacy violations that facebook commits on a regular basis. Even more so, nobody talks about the fact that violating your privacy - or convincing you to willingly give up private information - is the very business model of facebook.

Say what you want about Iran, but they do have a point here. Will anyone listen to them? Probably not.