From Associated Press: A Swiss court has ruled that Google Inc. must guarantee anonymity before publishing faces and license plates in its Street View service in Switzerland. A ruling published Monday by the Swiss Federal Administrative Court affects any new ground-level pictures that the popular Internet search engine publishes. Read more on Metro.
Category: Court
Girl, 11, Sues New York City, Police, Claiming Over-Reaction to Simple School Fight
Fernanda Santos reports: An 11-year-old Bronx girl has sued New York City, claiming that police officers overreacted last spring, handcuffing her after a fight with a third-grade classmate and denying her mother’s request to be present when they interviewed her. The suit claims that the fight did not warrant a police response: no one was…
Sexting minor’s lawsuit against website moves forward despite her violation of federal law
Evan Brown writes: Doe v. Peterson, 2011 WL 1120172 (E.D.Mich. March 24, 2011) When plaintiff Jane Doe was seventeen years old, she took some nude photos of herself and sent them over the internet to her boyfriend. Somehow the photos ended up on an adult website owned by defendants. Doe brought a civil cause of…
CAN-SPAM Held to Apply to Social Media Messaging
Timothy Tobin writes: On March 28, 2011, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held, in Facebook, Inc. v. MAXBOUNTY, Inc., case no. CV-10-4712-JF, that messages sent by Facebook users to their Facebook friends’ walls, news feeds or home pages are “electronic mail messages” under the CAN-SPAM Act. The court, in denying…