X Corporation has been ordered to pay a $100,000 fine for failing to completely remove a B.C. woman’s intimate image from its x.com social media site, after B.C.’s civil resolution tribunal ruled it wasn’t good enough for the company to just remove the photos in Canada.

The San Francisco-based company owned by Elon Musk argued it had complied with a tribunal’s protection order, issued in March, by removing the intimate image from x.com in Canada, in what it calls “geofencing,” according to the decision by tribunal vice-chair Eric Regehr.

Its Canadian lawyer told the tribunal it has no authority to order X to remove the photo from x.com outside of Canada, because the authority of B.C.’s Intimate Images Protection Act and the tribunal “ends at B.C.’s borders,” it said.

But the geofencing

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