4 ms·
Unless you feel you can dispute it, the jurisdiction for your use of Facebook and the jurisdiction underwhich you agreed to use Facebook is Santa Clara County,
by dotBen 14y ago
Unless you feel you can dispute it, the jurisdiction for your use of Facebook and the jurisdiction underwhich you agreed to use Facebook is Santa Clara County, Calfiornia, United States.
See 16.1 in https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms
Also, although the EU has strict data retention and data-export laws, you agreed to give up when you signed up for Facebook because Facebook keeps its data in the US.
- dredmorbius 14y agoAccording to Facebook. Again, if local law (or a jury nulification) trumps this, FB are SOL.
- Tyrannosaurs 14y agoJury Nullification is a concept in criminal law, it has no basis in civil law under which this would be argued. In civil law if the jury completely disregarded the facts / the law to the point that the judge believes that no reasonable jury could have reached the decision they did, the judge would be likely to enter a judgement not withstanding verdict whereby he or she basically says "I know what the jury said but they're wrong". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_notwithstanding_verdict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_notwithstanding_verdi...
- dredmorbius 14y agoThanks. I should've known that, really. Was looking for the civil equivalent of a finding for a party that would tend to go against the apparent legal facts of a case. I'm not sure how much faith I put in juries, but sometimes they do the right thing.
- aes256 14y agoDoesn't work like that. Anyone outside the US and Canada is doing business with Facebook Ireland Limited. They are bound by Irish law.