{"id":60925,"date":"2025-02-09T19:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60925"},"modified":"2025-02-09T19:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T19:38:30","slug":"falana-sues-zuckerberg-over-privacy-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/09\/falana-sues-zuckerberg-over-privacy-violation\/","title":{"rendered":"Falana Sues Zuckerberg Over Privacy Violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Renowned human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has filed a $5 million lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc., accusing the tech giant of invading his privacy by publishing a false and misleading video about his health.<\/p>\n<p>Filed before a Lagos High Court, the suit alleges that Facebook, owned by Mark Zuckerberg, hosted a video falsely claiming Falana has battled prostatitis for over 16 years.<\/p>\n<p>The video, posted under the &#8220;AfriCare Health Centre&#8221; page, allegedly features his name, image, and voice, violating Section 37 of the Nigerian Constitution and the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Falana argues that the publication has damaged his reputation, caused emotional distress, and constitutes an unlawful intrusion into his private life.<\/p>\n<p>He is seeking a court order compelling Meta to delete the video and prevent further use of his identity without consent.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the content as false, offensive, and reckless, Falana claims Meta\u2019s failure to verify the video before publication was aimed at driving traffic and boosting ad revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The court is expected to rule on the case in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke Renowned human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has filed a $5 million lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc., accusing the tech giant of invading his privacy by publishing a false and misleading video about his health. Filed before a Lagos High Court, the suit alleges that Facebook, owned by Mark Zuckerberg, hosted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":60926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-60925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60940,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60925\/revisions\/60940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}