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…
Category: Court
Texas Teen Scores Legal First in ‘Sexting’ Privacy Case
Matthew Heller writes: A Texas teenager has taken a major step toward winning her privacy lawsuit against an assistant middle school principal who searched the contents of her cell phone, finding a nude photo of her. Alexis Mendoza, then an eighth-grader at Kimmel Intermediate School in Spring, Texas, admitted sending the photo to a boy…
Irish telecoms fined after pleading guilty to privacy breaches and violation of data protection laws
UPC, Vodafone, O2 and Eircom have pleaded guilty to breaching the Data Protection laws. The charges related to the making of unsolicited marketing phone calls and sending unsolicited marketing messages. The companies were ordered to pay almost €15,000 in fines between them. UPC was convicted of the largest number of offences and received the biggest…
Ex-Employee’s Blogs Can’t Be Stopped Absent Extraordinary Circumstances, New York Court Rules
Joseph Lazzarotti and John Snyder comment on Cambridge Who’s Who Publishing v. Sethi, a case recently covered on DataBreaches.net because of its reference to an alleged data breach that had never been reported in the media. Of significance to me, the court ruled that Cambridge Who’s Who could not get an injunction that would stop…