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Legal notifications on Facebook OK with Aussie supreme court

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(Newser) – Australians can add legal judgments to the list of goodies their Facebook “friends” can send them. In what appears to be a global first, a Supreme Court judge today ruled that notices of default judgments—cases that don’t require defendants to appear—may be served on Facebook, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Plantiffs can also deliver notices by email, text message, or old-fashioned paper mail.

University of Virginia computer science student Adrienne Felt researched how online privacy relates to third-party applications that users routinely download on Web sites such as Facebook.
University of Virginia computer science student Adrienne Felt researched how online privacy relates to third-party applications that users routinely download on Web sites such as Facebook.   (AP Photo/Andrew Shurtleff)
This undated image provided by Facebook shows a page featuring the social networking site's latest look.
This undated image provided by Facebook shows a page featuring the social networking site's latest look.   (AP Photo/Facebook)
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