It was a troubling privacy case at the time. A mother had signed consent for a photographer to take nude photos of her 10-year old daughter for a Playboy layout. Garry Gross was the photographer. The child was Brooke Shields. The Associated Press tells the story for those who do not remember it or weren’t…
Category: Court
Paper fights ‘Johnny Adair lair’ privacy case
A Sunday newspaper had no right to publish photographs of a man alleged to have been housing former loyalist paramilitary chief Johnny Adair, the Court of Appeal heard yesterday. The privacy case was also compared to an action brought by ex-Formula One chief Max Mosley over false allegations that he took part in a Nazi-themed…
Student Privacy Takes Hit in Cell Phone Search Case
Matthew Heller discusses the DeSoto cellphone case discussed previously on this blog and seems to be as derisive of the court’s opinion as I was. His commentary begins: A Mississippi judge has chilled the privacy rights of students by ruling that school officials were justified in viewing photos on a student’s cell phone after he…
Class Outraged at Hidden ‘Sniffers’ on Interclick Web Advertisements
Bridget Freeland of Courthouse News reports on the lawsuit against Interclick mentioned on this blog yesterday: Interclick, a “web ad-serving company,” invades privacy and steals people’s personal information with online ads that contain “hidden code to ‘sniff’ plaintiff’s browser history and to deposit Adobe Flash local shared objects on her computer to monitor her online…