The family of Jade Goody is suing Mirror Group Newspapers for up to £100,000 over the publication of a picture of her burial in the People. Seven people, including Goody’s mother and grandparents, claim the image, published on 5 April, was an invasion of privacy and a breach of confidence. The group are also suing…
Category: Breaches
Deutsche Bank spy probe needs more time
Frankfurt prosecutors said it would take until mid-September at the earliest to conclude a preliminary probe into a spying affair at Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE). “We still need a few weeks,” a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office said on Monday, after previously saying the probe might be completed around the end of August. The probe by…
When is “outing” bloggers actionable?
Lawsuits involving anonymous bloggers and attempts to out them were prominent in the news last week. How do the courts handle attempts to unmask bloggers and how can bloggers fight back if they have been outed? Last week, model Liskula Cohen succeeded in getting a New York court to order Google to reveal the name…
Bored bureaucrat pleads guilty to passport snooping
A fifth person who has worked for the U.S. Department of State has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing passport application files stored in a computer database, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Kevin M. Young, 42, of Temple Mills, Md., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to one count…