Answer to Question #130703 in Law for sophia Jonk

Question

civil or criminal case? Obakeng, the founder of a social media network heads the unlawful operation of releasing the users’ data to third party companies for profit. The users decided to sue the social media network company as a result of this. The claim was to the value of R850 000.

Answer 1

This is a criminal case and the district court has jurisdiction over it.

Since, the founder of social media network was entrusted with the user data and he unlawfully and for wrongful gains, released the data to third party commited the criminal breach of trust.