Donna Goodison reports: It’s been 18 years since federal law banned “junk faxes,” but that hasn’t stopped companies from continuing to clog fax machines with unsolicited pitches. And under a proposed settlement, Lakeville’s Olde Stone Land Survey Co. will pay $1.3 million to end a class-action lawsuit alleging it sent tens of thousands of faxes…
Category: Court
Ca: Credit rating agency dinged $5,000 for privacy breach
Tonda MacCharles reports: In a judicial first, a federal court judge has ordered TransUnion of Canada Inc. to pay $5,000 in damages to a Calgary man whose loan application was turned down after another individual’s credit history was wrongly passed onto the bank. Federal Court Justice Russel Zinn found the privacy breach and repeated failures…
Article: The Fourth Amendment and the Brave New World of Online Social Networking
FourthAmendment.com points us to a new law review article: The Fourth Amendment and the Brave New World of Online Social Networking by Nathan Petrashek, 93 Marq. L. Rev. 1495 (2010). From the introduction: During a recent visit to the University of Florida Levin College of Law, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas was asked whether he believed the Court has…
AU: Saints furious over nude pics
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…