An "Individual's 'Private' Social Networking Sites Are Not Exactly Private, New York Court Rules". That is the title of a case summary published by Jackson Lewis, a US labour and employment law firm.

The case is Romano v. Steelcase, Inc., __ Misc. 2d. __, 2010 NY Slip Op. 20388 (Sup. Ct., Suffolk County 2010). According to the summary, in a lawsuit for personal injuries, a New York court determined that information designated as “private” on a plaintiff’s Facebook and MySpace pages could be accessed by the defendants in pre-trial discovery.