The Leon Walker case, involving hacking charges against a man for accessing his ex-wife’s emails on her computer, will proceed. Timothy Flynn writes: The Michigan Supreme Court has rejected the interlocutory appeal from a man charged under Michigan’s “unauthorized computer access” statute for allegedly hacking into his former wife’s computer. Leon Walker suspected his wife…
Category: Breaches
UK: Google was allowed to destroy data haul after ICO spent less than three hours examining information collected by Street Cars
Daniel Martin reports: Britain’s privacy watchdog spent less than three hours examining the private information stolen by Google’s fleet of Street Cars, it emerged yesterday. Phil Jones, formerly a senior member of the Information Commissioner’s Office, said it had not wanted to spend money on hiring a computer expert to fully analyse the material. Instead…
Privacy: Light Slap For Dharun Ravi; Big Penalties For Dot-Coms
Christopher Wolf writes: … In a case where lawmakers have specified a range of penalties available to remedy privacy and related violations, it is fair to characterize Ravi’s punishment as a slap on the wrist. While the available punishment of 10 years seemed excessive since Ravi was not on trial for murder (even though Celementi’s…
Hulu Reloads Against Privacy-Invasion Suit
Nick McCann reports: Hulu urged a federal judge to dismiss claims that it tells third parties what their subscribers watch without consent. In their amended class action, six Hulu subscribers said the video site “repurposed” its browser cache so a marketing analyst service called KISSmetrics could store their private data. The class also claims Hulu shared…