Tokyo court orders Facebook to disclose info on fake Instagram account creators
The Yomiuri Shimbun The Tokyo District Court has ordered U.S. company Facebook, Inc., which operates the Instagram photo and video sharing service, to provide a male Japanese fashion model with details about the person or people who created fake Instagram accounts and pretended to be him, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
The court’s provisional disposition ordering the information be disclosed has been finalized, and Facebook has provided the model with information including the Internet Protocol address of the fake accounts’ creators.
In many cases, courts have ordered information about people who posted messages on websites or social media networks be disclosed when the posts infringed on someone’s privacy or tarnished their reputation.
However, the model’s case is believed to be the first in which a court has ordered such details be disclosed because a fake account had been created to impersonate somebody. This ruling could help provide relief to victims of fake accounts.
The lawsuit at the district court was filed by Daisuke Kamada, a 37-year-old fashion model. Kamada had opened his Instagram account in 2014 and posted messages for his fans. However, several fake accounts bearing Kamada’s name and photographs of his face also appeared online. In December 2018, Kamada demanded that details on three of these fake accounts be disclosed.
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