Court: Social Networking Comments Private, in Part

摘要

The article discusses the court case Crispin v. Christian Audigier Inc. in the U.S. It states that the defendants in a copyright infringement case subpoenaed the social networking websites Facebook and MySpace to seek disclosure of wall posts and private messages from the plaintiff's account. It notes the District Court ruled that a social networking site's public wall and comment posts may not be given the same protection as private messages which are under the Stored Communications Act (SCA).