Jennifer Peltz of the Associated Press reports: The head of New York City’s transit union wants to go after an anonymous blog that has blasted him, and he asked a court Friday to make Google tell him who’s responsible. John Samuelsen says in court papers that the blog has repeatedly attacked him with false accusations…
Category: Court
Supreme Court declines to lift military ban on gays
Jeremy Pelofsky reports: The Supreme Court on Friday denied a request to lift the Pentagon’s ban that prevents openly gay men and women from serving in the U.S. military, a decision that turns the focus on the issue to Congress when lawmakers return to work next week. President Barack Obama has pledged to end the…
Convicted Cyberstalker Granted Resentencing by 9th Circuit
Eric Lipman writes: “Cyberstalking” has always seemed like a sort of amorphous, subjective concept to me. Nevertheless, there’s a federal statutemaking it a crime. And the California Appellate Report blogreports today on a case which leads me to believe that one man from Montana made it his mission to show me what cyberstalking is all about….
Google’s Toolbar Spies on Users, Class Claims
Tim Hull reports: A federal class action claims that Google’s Toolbar software deceives users into giving the company information about the websites they visit and the information they search for online, potentially “revealing a user’s inquiries about medical, political, religious, cultural, or financial matters.” The class claims that Google tells its Toolbar users they can…