17.06.2011: New social media, including social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, present considerable challenges for the protection of privacy. The social and legal issues were highlighted in Australia in late 2010, when a Melbourne teenager posted nude photographs of prominent Australian footballers to Facebook. The explicit photographs, which bore the caption 'Merry Christmas courtesy of the St Kilda schoolgirl', were posted as part of the teenager's personal campaign against a football club. While the Australian Federal Court promptly ordered removal of the photographs, inevitably, the photographs were soon virally distributed to other Internet sites. Weiterlesen "Privacy Law and New Social Media – A Comparative Analysis"