Be careful what you write on social networking sites.
That’s the recent message from a California court. Those who post on MySpace cannot talk about an invasion of privacy if their words are put in a newspaper without their permission.
The court case is about a University of California student (Cynthia Moreno) who wrote on her MySpace account about how much she hated her hometown of Coalinga, CA.
The Coalinga Record, the local newspaper, printed her myspace words. She sued the paper for invasion of privacy after members of the local community allegedly ran her family out of town and threatened to kill them.
The court said she had no privacy rights to her internet speech and threw out her lawsuit.
Questions:
1) What was the name of the student who posted on myspace?
2) What did she post about?
3) What did she sue the newspaper for?
4) What happened to her lawsuit?
5) Is the information you put on myspace public or private?
Due Thurs 4/30/09. Info and Picture taken from Wired.com (D. Kravets)
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