Is Facebook Legally Private? It Depends Where You Live

Do your Facebook privacy settings matter if you wind up in court? Intriguingly the courts seem undecided on this. Based on case law so far, they do in California but not in New York.

Blogger Kashmir Hill has described the disparity on her blog for Forbes.com.

In California, artist Buckley Crispin sued apparel company Christian Audigier for using his designs in ways that violated his original contract. During the course of defending itself, the company wanted access to all of Crispin’s communications about his work for Audigier from Facebook and MySpace, among others.

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