Amy Forliti of Associated Press reports: Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration on Monday, alleging full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. Ventura is asking a federal judge in Minnesota to issue an injunction…
Category: Court
Lawsuit over Hilton sex tape
From New Magazine in the UK: Paris Hilton’s infamous sex tape is at the centre of a new lawsuit as porn bosses battle to keep the film away from illegal downloaders. The socialite hit headlines back in 2004 when a porn video called 1 Night in Paris surfaced on the internet. The film, which features…
Nesbitt awards woman $40K for privacy breach
Robert Todd reports: A British Columbia doctor has been forced to pay his ex-wife $40,000 for breach of privacy and defamation after accessing private information about her on an old home computer and publishing it online and in e-mails. The case, Nesbitt v. Neufeld, saw businesswoman Wendy Neufeld go after damages from her ex-husband, Patrick…
Ca: E-mail access denial challenged by IPC
David Canton writes: When a government employee uses his or her workplace e-mail address to send and receive personal e-mails unrelated to their work, are those e-mails subject to disclosure to members of the public who request them under freedom of information legislation? Despite that these e-mails are generated on government computers, stored on government…