Social Media
Mar. 1, 2011
Seeking User Data
The legal pitfalls of obtaining personal information from social networking sites.
Lawyers may be tempted to mine social networking services for information relevant to their cases. After all, these sites store a wealth of personal information about their users, detailing their comments, daily activities, and associations. But legal and ethical pitfalls confront lawyers who try to collect such information.
In the first place, it's nearly impossible to win a civil subpoena to get user communications from a social networking site. Generally, anything reasonably calc...
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