He had created and put on sale a catalog of singles, in e-book format, with 1,218 profiles of women from Lecco who, on Facebook, had singles in the state. There Cassation now confirms the one and a half year sentence for Nicola Antonio Marongelli, a 56-year-old from Lecco already sentenced in May 2021. For him, the accusations are the unlawful processing of personal data, defamation and impersonation. At the time, judge Maria Chiara Arrighi had added six months in prison and the payment of court costs to the request for a year’s detention made by the prosecutor.
To the Corriere della SeraMarisa Marraffino, the lawyer of the eight women who filed a civil action, said that it is a sentence that “will establish jurisprudence because it establishes the right to self-determination and the boundaries of privacy on social networks are more clearly outlined. Data made public for a certain purpose cannot be extrapolated from the context and used for personal purposes by distorting the methods for which consent was given”.
Adding to the privacy issue is the defamation for the publication and sale of the catalog for just over six euros with 95 pages containing the names of 1218 people from Lecco. The booklet self-published it had been pulled after a month on the net. The victims recognized each other. 38 copies were sold before withdrawal and a catalog for the province of Monza was being considered. Marongelli has always said that he didn’t think he was doing anything wrong because the profiles were public. The sentence says that yes, they are public, but they cannot be used for purposes other than those for which consent was given by registering with Facebook.
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Source: Vanity Fair
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