A Social Phenomenon-In Car Accident Lawsuits
It's a brave new world out there for those of us who toil in the field of law. One reason for this is that accident and legal investigations have morphed into a nearly unrecognizable creature over the last ten years thanks in no small way to social networking.
It's a phenomenon that has been written about in legal journals and other forums with greater regularity over the last decade and most authors have come to the same conclusion - that being that, in short, attorneys and prosecutors alike are relying increasingly on findings from social network pages to support their cases in a variety of areas of the law including worker's compensation and criminal cases.
It's amazing that people are so naive and even blind to the fact that whatever they enter on their personal web pages is accessible by almost anyone in cyberspace. Moreover, even when it is erased - increasingly sophisticated electronic techniques allow for the information to be reconstructed.
Even knowing this people willingly divulge private information that has been used increasingly in court as evidence both for and against the person.
In one case, a person shared they had been the perpetrator of a hit and run accident. Police wasted no time in arresting this young man when it was brought to their atttention.
To my way of thinking - it's best to consider almost NOTHING to be private anymore - but rest assured nowhere is this more true than on the internet.
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