Within the social media world there are several different types of legal issues. Legal issues can concern content ownership, privacy, reputation, employment and Hofstra University. ___________ Privacy is increasingly steeping past people boundaries. Since technology keeps on enhancing its easier to invade ones privacy. The biggest negative impact is loss of privacy. As the years continue to go by the amount of privacy we have keeps shrinking. Even thought there is a constitution put in place to protect our privacy there is a very fine line between what is legal and what is illegal. The legal issues that go along with privacy are tracking and collecting data. Tracking on Twitter is a major issue according to the article here’s how Twitter can
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Two cases that are important is James Woods v. Twitter individual and La Russa v. Twitter. According to the article James Woods can sue Twitter user for calling him a cocaine addict an example of a defamation case is the case James Woods vs. Twitter individual. The legal issue that goes along with this case is defamation of character/slander. James Woods sued Twitter user for 10 million dollars over “cocaine addict accusation.” The actor, Woods went to Los Angeles Superior court and sued the anonymous individual who was tweeting as “Abe List” over a derogatory tweet that stated Woods was a “cocaine addict.” This was a message that Woods stated was sent to “thousands of SL’s followers and hundreds of thousands of Mr. Woods followers.” Woods then states "AL's (the owner of the twitter account) reckless behavior reached the Internet in an intent to harm him and has now jeopardized Woods' good name and reputation on a world wide scale. On July 15th, 2015 when the “cocaine addict” was tweeted he found out that the once upon a time in America actor himself tweeted about medias priorities. As stated in the article James Woods can sue Twitter user for calling him a cocaine addict Abe List stated “Cocaine addict James Woods still sniffing and spouting” (Goldman, 3) The complaint is what made Woods crazed. Woods confidently said that he has never been a cocaine addict and AL has no reason to believe so. This whole case began in December 2014, the campaign that damaged Woods’ reputation. In 2016, they settled the case for 10 million dollars. The ethical issue in this case was the comments that “Abe List” tweeted about Woods. The comments stated that Woods was a cocaine addict, yet he never had any proof or any reason to believe that Woods was a cocaine addict. “Abe List, AL, twitter anonyms individual” was trying to destroy Woods image to millions of people. From
Two cases that are important is James Woods v. Twitter individual and La Russa v. Twitter. According to the article James Woods can sue Twitter user for calling him a cocaine addict an example of a defamation case is the case James Woods vs. Twitter individual. The legal issue that goes along with this case is defamation of character/slander. James Woods sued Twitter user for 10 million dollars over “cocaine addict accusation.” The actor, Woods went to Los Angeles Superior court and sued the anonymous individual who was tweeting as “Abe List” over a derogatory tweet that stated Woods was a “cocaine addict.” This was a message that Woods stated was sent to “thousands of SL’s followers and hundreds of thousands of Mr. Woods followers.” Woods then states "AL's (the owner of the twitter account) reckless behavior reached the Internet in an intent to harm him and has now jeopardized Woods' good name and reputation on a world wide scale. On July 15th, 2015 when the “cocaine addict” was tweeted he found out that the once upon a time in America actor himself tweeted about medias priorities. As stated in the article James Woods can sue Twitter user for calling him a cocaine addict Abe List stated “Cocaine addict James Woods still sniffing and spouting” (Goldman, 3) The complaint is what made Woods crazed. Woods confidently said that he has never been a cocaine addict and AL has no reason to believe so. This whole case began in December 2014, the campaign that damaged Woods’ reputation. In 2016, they settled the case for 10 million dollars. The ethical issue in this case was the comments that “Abe List” tweeted about Woods. The comments stated that Woods was a cocaine addict, yet he never had any proof or any reason to believe that Woods was a cocaine addict. “Abe List, AL, twitter anonyms individual” was trying to destroy Woods image to millions of people. From