Greg Land reports: A now-defunct home improvement company has been hit with a $459 million “junk fax” judgment following a four-hour bench trial, said plaintiffs attorney Marc B. Hershovitz. The case, originally filed in 2003, targeted American Home Services Inc. for sending unsolicited fax advertisements to 306,000 class members in violation of the Telephone Consumer…
Category: Breaches
UK: Police legal advice gives spam RIPA protection
Amberhawk Training reports on how MPS views stored communications in terms of privacy protections: The voicemail hacking incident is still exercising MPs – especially the Labour ones who did little to protect individual privacy during the party’s decade in power (see last week’s blog). So when Assistant Commissioner John Yates of the Metropolitan Police Service…
Ca: Posting personal photos, recordings online not illegal
Chris Kitching reports: It appears a young Winnipeg woman didn’t break any laws by recording her stormy telephone calls with a former lover, but she might have opened herself to the possibility of legal action. Taking a page from the Mel Gibson saga, Deborah Simmons uploaded several profanity-laden recordings between her and wrestler Monty (Kip)…
IRS e-mail snoop’s wiretap conviction upheld
Bruce Vielmetti reports on the decision referred to in an earlier blog entry here today: David Szymuszkiewicz of Cudahy worked for the IRS in Racine. When his driver’s license was suspended over a drunken driving violaton in 2003, the veteran revenue officer worried he might lose his job. So he set his supervisor’s e-mail to forward all her e-mails…