Dutch court to Facebook: Turn over info about sex video or give outside expert access to servers
A Dutch court has ordered Facebook to turn over information about who posted a sex video on the social media site without the consent of the identifiable young woman depicted.
If, as company officials say, Facebook cannot do so because information about how the video was posted was deleted in February along with the video itself, an independent researcher must be given access to the company’s servers to confirm this, the Amsterdam District Court ruled on Thursday.
“The offending account was ultimately deleted before we received any request for user data, so all information about it was removed from our servers in accordance with our terms and applicable law,” Facebook said in an email to Reuters.
The ruling was made in a lawsuit brought by the now 21-year-old woman against Facebook. Her former boyfriend made the video when both were minors, but he has denied posting it from what Facebook described as a fake account.
The woman has said on Dutch television that she was humiliated by the video. Although it was swiftly taken down from Facebook, it survives elsewhere on the Internet.
Hat tip: Naked Security
