EU ruling may spell trouble for Facebook in India

NEW DELHI: A top European Union (EU) court’s ruling against social media giant Facebook on Thursday could have persuasive implications against the company in a case in India’s Supreme Court concerning traceability and social media platforms and others in India’s high courts, technology lawyers familiar with cases concerning the company in India said.

The European Court of Justice ruled that national courts in Europe can order online platforms to remove defamatory content worldwide and that individual countries can order Facebook to take down posts, photographs and videos and restrict global access to that material. The top court’s decision came following a complaint by an Austrian politician who wanted to remove disparaging comments about her on Facebook.