Dan Michaluk writes: The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has just issued a decision in which it affirmed a decision to deny a potential defamation claimant the use of a pseudonym (initials) in pursuing a defamation claim.The appeal was brought by a 15-year-old girl who has taken issue with an individual who created a fake…
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IL: County Judge Tosses Out Naperville Woman’s Internet Privacy Case
Dan Campana reports on a case where an ISP fought its own customer’s attempt to block them from revealing her identity information: A Naperville woman’s attempt to keep her Internet identity private proved to be short lived in DuPage County court. Iris Tam had filed an “emergency” request in late 2010 asking a judge to…
Suit: Amazon fraudulently collects, shares users’ personal info
Nick Eaton reports: A class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges Amazon.com fraudulently circumvents users’ Web-browser privacy settings to collect personal information without permission and share it with other companies. The suit says Amazon tricks Microsoft’s Internet Explorer into thinking the e-retail site is “more privacy-protective than it actually is,” and uses a clever work-around to collect…
Questions in the Search and Seizure of Digital Evidence Are Ripe for Answers
Elkan Abramowitz and Barry A. Bohrer write in the New York Law Journal: Uncertainty regarding the application of the Fourth Amendment to computers, e-mail, and other digitized information[FOOTNOTE 1]has a significant impact on those accused of white-collar crime because so much of the evidence in white-collar cases derives from those sources.[FOOTNOTE 2] This article examines…