On Wednesday, a federal judge of Washington D.C. ordered Facebook to turn over data related to accounts it deleted in 2018 that may have fueled the Rohingya genocide.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui of Washington, D.C. ruled that once providers permanently take down accounts, federal privacy law does not apply to user information. Furthermore, the removal of the military posts might create a wide impact on investigators.
Judge Faruqui wrote, “Locking away the requested content would be throwing away the opportunity to understand how disinformation begat genocide. Failing to do so here would compound the tragedy that has befallen the Rohingya.”
The Gambia who filed a case against Myanmar accused the country of violating the 1948 United Nations Convention on Genocide, has asked Facebook to reveal the records as part of the investigation at the International Court of Justice in Hague.
Whereas, Facebook objected, citing user privacy laws.
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