Over the past year, there have been a number of decisions in which courts have been faced with the issue of whether a plaintiff must provide a defendant with access to his or her Facebook pages. In these cases, courts in various jurisdictions have had to grapple with the tension between what is public and what is private when one posts information on Facebook. ...
This article was originally published in the May 2012 issue of the Product Liability and Toxic Tort Section Newsletter, a publication of the New Jersey State Bar Association, and is reprinted here with permission.