Christopher Goffard reports: Three weeks after his 18-year-old daughter sped away in his Porsche and swerved to her death in Lake Forest, Christos Catsouras understood why he had not been allowed to see her body. Photographs of the Halloween 2006 crash, taken and leaked by the California Highway Patrol, were proliferating on the Internet. The…
Category: Breaches
Court says students can sue over strip search
Dan Sewell reports: A federal appeals panel ruled Friday staffers at an Pike County vocational school can be sued by high school nursing students who were strip-searched after a reported theft. The three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected immunity for the school officials, standing by an earlier conclusion that the…
‘Hacker’ posted Jackson children’s YouTube videos
The once sheltered children of the late Michael Jackson have been thrust onto the spotlight after home-made videos of two of his three children playing up for web cameras were leaked and appeared on YouTube. Jackson, who died aged 50 last June of an overdose of powerful medications, went to great lengths to keep Prince…
Ca: Voyeurism alleged at posh eatery
Nadia Moharib reports: Police have laid a criminal charge against a former employee at a popular high-end restaurant who is accused of surreptitiously filming people in a washroom. Steven Craig Smith, 36, was charged with unlawfully making a video recording — a voyeurism charge — stemming from a May 2, 2010 incident. Police allege Smith…