A legal case against Facebook, which will involve a 14-year-old taking the company to court in Belfast over naked images published on the social network, could open the floodgates for other civil claims, according to lawyers who work with victims of revenge pornography. “A case like this risks opening the floodgates for other civil cases to be taken against Facebook and other social media sites,” he said. A Facebook spokeswoman said there was “no place for this kind of content on Facebook and we remove it when it’s reported to us. Earlier this month, an Italian revenge pornography victim, who won a case to have material removed from search engines and social networks including Facebook, killed herself. Other potentially problematic images, such as those in revenge pornography cases, have to be reported and “reviewed” before they are taken down.

Source: The Guardian October 09, 2016 14:21 UTC