CIVIL LIABILITY FOR UNLAWFUL ACTS AND ABUSES OF INSTAGRAM USERS IN BRAZIL: THE LINE BETWEEN FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND ABUSES AGAINST PERSONALITY RIGHTS

Abstract

The general objective of this work is to analyze the civil liability of Instagram users  in the protection of personality rights in the virtual environment, aiming to understand how the legal and normative instruments of this digital platform influence the interactions and behaviors of users. It is known that social networks are "free" environments, in which a good part of users cultivate hatred, injury, defamation and are hardly held civilly liable. However, this reality has been changing in recent years. Regarding the methodology, it is a descriptive and explanatory research, with a qualitative approach, using the instruments of bibliographic research, books, articles and other documents already published. After the research, it was found that there is a lack of specific laws to combat different virtual crimes, as the speed with which new criminal practices emerge is higher than the volume of laws that are created. Thus, it is believed that new effective measures and legislation can and should emerge to ensure that people are not victims of these almost invisible criminals.