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Facebook sex tape case has implications for privacy law in Australia

Posted on January 25, 2015 by pogowasright.org

Michaela Whitboum reports:

A West Australian woman has won almost $50,000 in compensation from an ex-boyfriend who posted sexually explicit videos and photos of her on Facebook, in a significant ruling on personal privacy law.

Caroline Wilson, a fly-in, fly-out worker at Fortescue Metals Group’s Cloudbreak mine in the Pilbara, took her ex-boyfriend and former colleague Neil Ferguson to court after he posted 16 photos and two videos of her on his Facebook page.

Read more on Sydney Morning Herald.

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