School does not have to help in revenge porn case, judges say
A trade school in Noord Brabant does not have to research which of its pupils placed a sex video featuring a young Dutch women on social media, judges in Breda said on Wednesday.
The court said the woman had failed to prove this would be the only way she could find out who uploaded the film in January 2015. In addition, Chantal’s legal team could have asked the six students who are thought to be behind the revenge porn incident to agree to the research, the court said.
The school says it would be to big a breach of its 2,500 students’ privacy to search through their passwords and browser history. The court also supported this position.
Chantal’s lawyer Thomas van Vugt said after the verdict that once again ‘the victim has been left out in the cold’.
Earlier this year, judges ordered Facebook to cooperate in the search for the person who uploaded the video. That led to IT experts tracing a key IP address on Facebook’s servers in Dublin.
The IP address is registered to a small company named ITWorkz, which is part of the college. The company offers IT services and IP addresses to educational institutes in the region.
Van Vught said he will now go to the police to see if they can intervene. ‘The good news is that the school has kept the data, so I hope the police’s best cyber team will carry out the research.’
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