Falana Sues Meta $5m Over Privacy Breach
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria and human rights air jordan 4 mars blackmon 2024 lawyer, Femi Falana, has filed a $5 million lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, over an alleged invasion of his privacy.
The suit, filed at a Lagos High Court, accuses Meta of publishing a misleading video on Facebook under the page “AfriCare Health Centre.”
The video allegedly featured Falana’s name, image, and voice, falsely claiming he had suffered from prostatitis for 16 years.
Falana argues that the publication violates his right to privacy under Section 37 of the 1999 Constitution and the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023.
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He describes the video as “false, inaccurate, misleading and unfair to the Applicant and thereby violates the provision of section 24(1)(a) and (e) of the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023.”
He is asking the court to declare that “Respondents continued publication of the Applicants name, still and motion images and purported voice on a page and video captioned ‘AfriCare Health Centre’ on their platform – www.facebook.com to the effect that the Applicant suffered from a disease known as ‘Prostatitis’ constitutes an invasion of the Applicants privacy guaranteed by section 37 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999.”
He is also seeking an order compelling Meta to “forthwith remove, erase and delete the video captioned ‘AfriCare Health Centre’ on their platform – www.facebook.com.”
In his affidavit, Falana stated, “I have never had any dealing with the Respondent or its pages on issues with my health life. The video and its contents are false, inaccurate, misleading and unfair to me. The video paints me in a false light and as such an invasion of my privacy.”
“For their failure to verify the page and video before publishing, I believe the Respondent’s publicity of my name and image in a false light was done carelessly and recklessly to draw Украина #143912860 , adidas Ultraboost 5.0 DNA "Sonic Ink" , Брюки штаны adidas z.n.e. cold.rdy athletics fs2437 — цена 850 грн в каталоге Спортивные штаны ✓ Купить женские вещи по доступной цене на Шафе traffic to the Respondent’s platform to boost its advertisement nike dunk high cargo khaki white nike ja 1 scratch revenues.”
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