Liz Potocsnak reports: The man who stalked sportscaster Erin Andrews and posted nude photos of her on the Internet did the same thing to a woman he supervised at the Combined Insurance Company of America, the woman claims in Federal Court. The insurance manager claims that Michael Barrett videotaped her naked through peepholes of hotel…
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Court says News of the World staff who ordered phone hack must be named
Nick Davies reports: The private investigator at the centre of the phone-hacking scandal has been ordered by a high court judge to reveal who instructed him to engage in the illegal interception of voicemail messages of public figures. Glenn Mulcaire, who was jailed in January 2007 for intercepting the voicemail of eight people, had asked the…
Anonymity, “Take That” and Reporting Privacy Injunctions
The Court of Appeal yesterday discharged a super-injunction which had preventing reference to a privacy injunction obtained by Howard Donald of “Take That”. The decision, Ntuli v Donald ([2010] EWCA Civ 1276) has received widespread coverage in the media – with over 200 items picked up by “Google News”. Much of this coverage focused on the…
Case against iPhone eavesdropper moves forward
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…