Kelly Heyboer reports: Six months after their son’s suicide, the parents of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi said for the first time yesterday they do not want his former roommate to receive a “harsh punishment” for allegedly using a webcam to spy on the freshman’s intimate encounter with another man. But the family does want…
Category: Court
UK: Goldsmiths win court privacy order on hacked e-mails
Details of personal e-mails from Tory MP Zac Goldsmith’s ex-wife Sheherazade and his sister Jemima Khan should not be published, the High Court has ruled. It has emerged a woman hacked their e-mail accounts and passed details to a national newspaper journalist. The case was made subject to a “super injunction” in 2008, meaning nothing…
UDID: The Next Privacy Frontier?
The Womble Carlyle Team writes: Companies that make their money in the mobile computing space – application developers, device manufacturers, software adaptors – have a new worry. Many functions and applications used on iPhone devices currently rely on reporting that includes the UDID unique device identifier. Two new lawsuits against Apple for its use of…
Berlin court rules Street View doesn’t invade privacy
Jeremy Kirk reports on an important win for Google in a German court: Google won a civil lawsuit in Germany lodged by a woman who contended its roving camera cars that shoot photographs for Street View violated her privacy. The woman lost her case in a regional court on Sept. 13, 2010, then an appeal…