Plaintiff Must Produce Facebook Photos in Personal Injury Case Against Target, Fla. Appeals Court Rules

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida appeals court has refused to quash an order requiring a personal injury plaintiff to produce photographs from her Facebook account, ruling that the photographs sought were reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence and the plaintiff’s privacy interest in them was minimal, if any.

In a Jan. 7 order, the 4th District Florida Court of Appeal explained that photographs posted on a social networking site such as Facebook are neither privileged nor protected by any right of privacy, regardless of any privacy settings that the user may have established.