Iran Court Summons Mark Zuckerberg For Facebook Privacy Violations 304
wiredmikey (1824622) writes "An Iranian judge has summoned Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to answer allegations that his company's apps have breached people's privacy, it was reported Tuesday. The court in Fars province ordered that Zuckerberg address unspecified 'violation of privacy' claims made by Iranians over the reach of Facebook-owned apps, ISNA news agency reported. 'Based on the judge's verdict, the Zionist manager of Facebook... should report to the prosecutor's office to defend himself and make compensation for damages,' Rouhollah Momen-Nasab, a senior Iranian Internet security official, told ISNA. Access to social networks, including Twitter and Facebook, are routinely blocked by Iranian authorities, as are other websites considered un-Islamic or detrimental to the regime."
Re:Yea, I'm sure he gives a rat's ass. (Score:4, Informative)
How exactly could an attorney help someone avoid a fatwa?
Not all countries separate church and state. Iranian attorneys (and most mid-east attorneys I'd guess) have to navigate religious law as well as civic law.
Re:Yea, I'm sure he gives a rat's ass. (Score:5, Informative)
He's probably just glad that he lives in a country that apparently cares less about privacy than Iran.
Re:Yea, I'm sure he gives a rat's ass. (Score:5, Informative)
Um, some friends of mine got a fatwa from their imam about marriage recommendations last week. The word "fatwa" is the same thing as asking a member of the clergy for written advice.
Yes, there are problems with Muslim extremists, but I do wish people would stop turning the words "advice" and "school" into things meaning stuff they shouldn't?
Lets be real here: Iran has its problems, especially with extremists However, the country itself isn't evil, and Iranians in general see through the political BS more than Americans see through the CNN/Fox News/MSNBC charade.
In the scheme of things, the Iran court is a propaganda item to shore up the hard-liners who run the country. MZ isn't going to Tehran, nor will he be extradited there. If there were an extradition treaty, virtually every US and European citizen would be in deep trouble. The Iranian population knows this charade, and they likely will continue to quietly keep to their VPNs and continue to avoid the morality police/IRG members.
Again, one needs to separate Iran (the government from the Iranian people.) The people are smart enough not to use a jube as a waterslide.
Re:Yea, I'm sure he gives a rat's ass. (Score:5, Informative)
It's Islam Shariah Law. The rich are always favored over the poor.
I don't know, the Iranians [bbc.com] just hanged a banker.
Re:Good luck on that... he won't appear (Score:4, Informative)
But, even they try very hard to distance themselves from Iran, the land of the batshit crazy.
I just met a guy who claimed "Iranian" heritage. His (muslim) family left "Iran" in the 1800's, and moved to Lahore.
On the other hand, I live in a neighborhood with Jews most of which moved from the Islamic Republic of Iran shortly after they revolution. They call themselves "Persian".
As per Wikipedia, the term "Eran" is found to refer to Iran in a 3rd-century Sassanid inscription, meaning "Land of the Aryans".
On the other hand, the country has been known in the West as "Persia" from the Greeks "Persis", meaning land of the Persians. There are Persians in Iran, but not all Iranians are Persians. Some Iranians are Lurs, Ossetians, Kurds, Pashtuns, Balochs, and Tajiks.
In 1935, Reza Shah requested that the international community refer to the country as Iran.
So it is complex...