Kashmir Hill writes: A cutting edge legal complaint in Europe over Internet reputation could force Google to rethink how it handles individuals’ control over the search results for their names. Spanish plastic surgeon Hugo Guidotti Russo wanted Google to liposuction from his results a 1991 news article about a patient angry about an allegedly botched…
Category: Court
Jeweler sells surveillance tape over Lohan’s theft case to TV show
A Venice, California jewelry store has sold the surveillance tape central to the felony theft case against troubled actress Lindsay Lohan to a company that licensed it to a popular entertainment news show, which could complicate the case, local news outlets reported on Saturday. Entertainment Tonight, a daily tabloid-style television show that is syndicated by…
UK: Anonymity order lifted in marital privacy case
Louise Jacobs writes: A High Court judge has lifted an anonymity order protecting the identity of a formerly married couple involved in a privacy dispute. In Stephanie Hirschfeld v James McGrath [2011] EWHC 249 (QB), Ms Hirschfeld, the ex-wife of Mr McGrath, had obtained an interim injunction on 4 February 2011 to restrain the publication of certain confidential…
Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court’s privacy cop
GWU law professor Jeffrey Rosen writes: Justice Samuel Alito has become America’s privacy cop. By an 8 to 1 vote this past week, the Supreme Court upheld the First Amendment right of Kansas’s Westboro Baptist Church to engage in hateful protests at military funerals. The lone dissenter was Alito, who insisted that the grieving relatives…