Legal Papers Served Via Facebook

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CANBERRA lawyers for lending company MKM Capital have won the right to serve legal binding documents to defendants via their Facebook profiles in a quite worrying case. The Supreme Court allowed MKM to chase Carmel Rita Corbo and Gordon Kingsley Maxwell Poyser via the social network after the defendants refused to keep up with mortgage [...]

Legal Papers Served Via Facebook

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2 Responses to “Legal Papers Served Via Facebook”
  1. James says:

    Surely you can’t be suggesting that people who volunteer & upload countless facts & tidbits about themselves be concerned over privacy? I think frightening may be a bit of an overaction – more like common sense.

  2. Nikki J says:

    @ James

    There was no suggestion that either defendant uploaded countless facts about themselves, rather that they themselves were accessible. Even the basic information they listed was enough to have lawyers chase them down via the network. Even you’ve given your contact e-mail address and name just to leave a quick comment on this post. Maybe people forget that such little info can be used by others against them. Many put information out there and then disconnect believing they’re “back on earth” after a bit of fun in an alternate dimension. What I could have included in my conclusion is that content on the Internet is most definitely not above the law despite many still believing otherwise.

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