The Philippine Supreme Court has upheld the administration of St Theresa’s College in Cebu City, which was brought to court for allegedly violating the privacy of its students who uploaded on Facebook photos of themselves clad in bikinis. After the school did not allow the students to go on stage during graduation in 2012, the parents went to court to compel the school to return soft copies of the photos as well as declare they didn’t violate the teenagers’ privacy rights. The High Court, however, said the parents failed to prove that the photos were visible only to the 5 girls and not to their wider network of Facebook friends or the public. It also said the school “cannot be faulted for being steadfast in its duty of teaching its students to be responsible in their dealings and activities in cyberspace…[and] enforced the disciplinary actions specified in the Student Handbook.”
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