A judge in the Netherlands has ruled that Facebook has two weeks to hand over personal details of a poster of revenge porn to a Dutch victim. In case Facebook does not hand over the data, the company has to allow a third party access to its servers for further investigation.
Facebook has to hand over the name, email address, mobile number, birthdate and IP address that was used for the creation of the account that posted the porn. Also the time and date of the creation of the account have to be provided to the victim.
The social network has 14 days to comply, in case Facebook doesn't or is unable to, then an independent investigation of a third party should find out whether Facebook still has the data somewhere.
Facebook already argued that it is unable to hand over the data because it was permanently and fully deleted. Nevertheless, the judge ruled Facebook should do anything possible to find out whether it can find data of the person who created the account to post the revenge porn in which the victim featured.
The victim, a 21 year old Dutch female, requested the data because a porn video in which she featured was posted on Facebook in January. In the video she had sex with her boyfriend at that time. Her ex boyfriend denies he has posted the video online. At the end of January the account was deleted after a report that the account was fake.
