"Facebook: a cunning litigator's best friend"

Associate Professor Michael Legg writes about how Facebook can be a litigator's best friend in the Sydney Morning Herald (30 November 2011). Please see summary below:

No matter how many times you adjust the latest privacy setting on Facebook there is, ultimately, no such thing as privacy in social media.

That doesn't mean there is someone constantly looking over the virtual shoulders of the world's 800 million active Facebook users, or tracking the multitudes on Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, Flickr or other websites. But it does mean that anyone with good, legal cause is increasingly likely to be able to sift through the personal and often recklessly frank exchanges that fly across the social media landscape.

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Associate Professor Michael Legg is the Convener of UNSW Law's 40th anniversary conference this week, "Dispute resolution in the next 40 years: Repertoire or Revolution" held at UNSW this year.