Misuse of private information constitutes a serious limitation on free speech. Everyone, including celebrities and other public figures, has a right to protect their private information. Whether the media can publish private information about an identifiable individual, without their consent, will depend upon an ‘intense’ scrutiny of the facts. The court decides where the balance…
Category: Court
The Pirate Bay Appeal Verdict: Guilty Again
Ernesto writes: The verdict against three people associated with The Pirate Bay just been announced. The Swedish Appeal Court found Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström guilty of “contributory copyright infringement” and handed down prison sentences ranging from 4 to 10 months plus damages of more than $6.5 million in total. Read more on…
The Supreme Court on School Interrogations and Parental (Dis)empowerment
Craig Livermore writes: The Supreme Court has in the past several weeks granted certiorari in two cases involving the rights of juveniles in police interrogations in the school setting. In Greene v. Camreta, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the interrogation of a juvenile by police authorities in the school setting in the absence…
Divided Supreme Court puts limit on privacy expectations
Janice Tibbetts reports on a Canadian court ruling mentioned previously on this blog: The right to privacy in one’s home is not absolute, the Supreme Court of Canada said Wednesday in a ruling that allowed police to conscript a Calgary power company to collect details of a customer’s electricity use to determine if he was…