Abstract:
Social networks have positively facilitated interaction and connection between people.
However, as a result, this negatively led to an increase in virtual crimes. With the
advancement of the internet, the rise of social networks and the speed with which
people access these media at the same time, it is obvious. Some users use this means to cause offenses against the rights of others, such as private life, honor, and their
image, rights that are inherent to the individual's personality. The present work aims to
demonstrate that the advancement of social networks, with their capacity for rapid
propagation, has facilitated crime in this communication environment, but there are
measures to be taken, through the civil liability of its users who offend the right to image
of a person, such as indemnity. Using the method of research and analysis of laws,
books, reports, articles and in the light of Jurisprudence, it was concluded that the user
who violates a person's right to image on social networks can, in fact, be held civilly
liable. However, with the exacerbated growth of users accessing these social media,
and the way in which these violations of constitutionally guaranteed rights occur, it is
urgent to implement a legal provision that regulates in a special way the civil liability of
those who use these media to commit crimes, extending, when applicable, to its
providers.
