Michael Tarm of The Associated Press reports: When anonymous jurors begin hearing the perjury trial of retired baseball slugger Barry Bonds this week, they can credit their privacy in part to a case involving another famous defendant, but one where the focus is on alleged political corruption rather than steroids: Illinois’ impeached former governor, Rod…
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Tyler Clementi’s parents want roommate prosecuted, not severely punished
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…
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Details of personal e-mails from Tory MP Zac Goldsmith’s ex-wife Sheherazade and his sister Jemima Khan should not be published, the High Court has ruled.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…