Evan Brown writes: This past summer the case against a man accused of using his iPhone to surreptitiously record a family conversation about his dying mother’s will got some attention when the court dismissed the stepfather-widower’s claim for violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. But the dismissal of that case was not the end of…
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EPIC Files Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Case on “Personal Privacy”
From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed a “friend of the court” brief in a case concerning the meaning of “personal privacy.” EPIC urged the Justices to reject AT&T’s claim that its “personal privacy” prevents the public disclosure of records subject to the Freedom of Information Act. EPIC cited the commonly understood meaning of “personal privacy” in the…
Joshua Simon Ashby gets 4 months in jail for posting naked photo of ex-girlfriend on Facebook
Michael Sheridan reports: A New Zealand man looking to get back at his ex-girlfriend by posting a naked photo of her on Facebook is heading to jail. Twenty-year-old Joshua Simon Ashby will serve four months in jail after he pled guilty to a charge distributing indecent material on Friday, an act which was described as one of “irresponsible drunken rage”…
Facebook account protected from disclosure in discovery, for now
Evan Brown writes: Unlike some recent cases such as Romano v. Steelcase, which seem to give the impression that the information in a person’s social networking account is always fair game for discovery in litigation, one New York court has come down on the side of protecting the privacy of a Facebook user’s content. Plaintiff was…