Rodney Mouawad reports: The St Kilda Football Club is furious with a teenage girl over publishing two lewd pictures, including a nude picture of one of their stars on the social-networking site Facebook. St Kilda were so infuriated that they went to the Federal Court of Melbourne late on Monday afternoon seeking an order against…
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Google Argues Street View Cars Did Not Violate Privacy Laws
Wendy Davis reports: Arguing that it broke no laws, Google is asking a judge to dismiss a potential class-action lawsuit stemming from the company’s collection of data sent over WiFi networks. “It is not unlawful under the Wiretap Act to receive information from networks that are configured so that communications sent over them are “readily…
Se: Supreme court receives Pirate Bay appeal
Carl Lundström, one of the four defendants in The Pirate Bay trial, has confirmed that he is appealing the sentence imposed by the Swedish appeals court to the Supreme Court (Högsta Domstolen). Lundström’s lawyer Per E Samuelsson told Sveriges Radio’s P3 news programme on Monday that his client, who is a wealthy heir to the…
Japanese woman sues Google for displaying images of underwear
Julian Ryall reports: A Japanese woman is suing Google for displaying images of underwear hanging on her washing line on its Street View function. The woman, who has not been named, is suing the internet giant for 600,000 Yen (£4,588) claiming the images caused her psychological distress, according to Japan’s Mainichi newspaper. The first hearing…