Nick Britten reports: A dentist loaded spyware onto his fiancee’s laptop to gather evidence against her as their relationship collapsed, a court has heard. Mark Singh was accused of “somewhat lacking in gentlemanliness” by infiltrating his former fiancee Moira Walsh’s computer. Mr Singh’s “disgraceful behaviour” landed him with legal costs or around £130,000, even though…
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Ex-Minn. governor sues over body scans, pat-downs
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…
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…