Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller has really made a point of going after robo-callers. Here’s a follow-up to a case reported last June: A Texas company sued by the Indiana Attorney General’s Office for allegedly making more than 100 unwanted robo-calls to a South Bend business has paid a $30,000 settlement to resolve the lawsuit….
Category: Business
Cops back in on BT/Phorm case
Chris Williams reports: The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has called in City of London Police to assist as it decides whether to go to court over BT’s covert trials of Phorm’s web interception and profiling system. The City force ran the original criminal investigation into the trials, which saw tens of thousands of BT customers’…
Ca: Case Report – Privacy breach as a basis for enjoining customer solicitation?
Dan Michaluk writes On May 3rd, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed a motion for an injunction to restrain a departing investment advisor from soliciting his former clients. It is notable because plaintiff counsel claimed it would suffer irreparable harm to its reputation because the defendant’s use of its customer list would place it…
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…