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…
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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…
NYC transit union chief seeks to unmask blogger
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…