Facebook Privacy Settings and Your Georgia Personal Injury Claim

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by Lisa Callahan lisacallahan@murphylawyer.com

9/30/2011
James K. Murphy
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Facebook Privacy Settings and Your Georgia Personal Injury Claim

When participating in a Georgia personal injury claim, you should never assume that just because you have high privacy settings on your social media profiles that everything you post is confidential. In the past few years, many security breaches have taken place on big-name websites, meaning anything you make available on the Internet can potentially be exposed to others.

This holds especially true in your personal injury claim, and doesn't have to involve hackers to become an issue. There have been many tales of accident victims filing injury claims and suddenly receiving new friend requests from unknown parties.

It's plausible that the other party involved in your Georgia personal injury claim could be using false accounts or even your own friends to fish for information regarding your injuries. While some of this conduct may be illegal in some cases, if you accept a friend request from someone you don't know you are potentially exposing yourself to damage on your claim.

If the other party can find a way to legally access your personal discussions about your accident and injuries they can use that information against you in your injury case. This means if they manage to get you to friend them, or they contact a mutual friend of yours, they can potentially read any discussions you have - good or bad - about your case.

To protect yourself from exposing too much information on social media, it's best to take a break from the networks altogether. You won't have to worry about your status updates sending the wrong impression about your injuries, and you'll decrease the risk of having your claim denied. An Austell, Georgia lawyer can give you more guidance on saving your Georgia personal injury claim as well.

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