A&L Goodbody solicitors for Meta also stated that account complained of was being operated by an unnamed third party, other than the account holder.
This would allow it to locate such content and take appropriate action against it, the letter also stated.However, counsel asked the court to adjourn the proceedings for a week, to allow his client fully consider Meta’s response. Mr Justice O’Moore consented to the adjournment. The student says he also received a message from the account user, which he had connected with sometime earlier this year thinking it might be somebody he knew, demanding that he pay them or else the account holder was going to send what were described as “nudes” to all his Instagram and Snapchat contacts.
The student said that after he blocked the account he recovered several communications from persons on his contact list, including from contacts at the college he attends, after they were sent the images by account.