Ginny LaRoe has a helpful article on the upcoming rehearing en banc of United States v. Nosal , a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals case that asks whether violating an employer’s computer use policy is a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a law that started life as an anti-hacking statute. A few…
Category: Breaches
Defendant in Rutgers gay snooping case rejects no-jail plea deal
Associated Press reports: Prosecutors offered the former Rutgers student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate’s intimate encounter with another man a plea deal that would have kept him out of prison and sought to prevent his deportation. But on Friday, Dharun Ravi’s lawyer told a judge that he would not take…
Erin Andrews and Insult
Kyle Graham writes: Some of you may have seen that ESPN reporter Erin Andrews recently re-filed her civil lawsuit against a Nashville, Tennessee hotel for negligence and invasion of privacy. This lawsuit follows upon the surreptitious videotaping of Andrews by one Michael Barrett, named as a co-defendant in the case. Barrett has since been convicted of stalking,…
Federal district court rules student has cause of action for violation of privacy rights after school officials disclosed sexual orientation to her mother
Here’s a follow-up on a case previously mentioned on this blog: Wyatt v. Kilgore Indep. Sch. Dist., No. 10-674 (E.D. Tex. Nov. 30, 2011) Abstract: A federal district court in Texas has ruled that a student has stated a valid cause of action for violation of her substantive due process right to privacy based on school…