Nate Anderson reports: The first P2P case to come to trial in the US has lasted five years and now has three verdicts, this one coming after just two hours of deliberation. Jammie Thomas-Rasset must pay $62,500 for each of the 24 songs at issue in the case, for total of $1.5 million. Read more…
Category: Court
IE: Media outlets did not breach privacy of sexually abused children, court rules
The High Court has ruled there was no breach, in reports and broadcasts by three media organisations, of the right to privacy of two children who was sexually abused. The children had claimed that reports in the media of the conviction of a man who had attacked both her and another child resulted in their…
Surveillance Court Issues New Rules of Procedure
Steven Aftergood writes: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which reviews government applications for domestic intelligence surveillance, issued new rules (pdf) on Monday to govern its proceedings. The new rules differ only slightly from the draft rules (pdf) that were issued for public comment in late August (“FISA Court Proposes New Court Rules,” Secrecy News, September…
S.D.Tex.: Cell phone location data subject to Fourth Amendment; more invasive than GPS
FourthAmendment.com covers a decision out of the Southern District of Texas that held that cell phone location data is subject to the Fourth Amendment because it can reveal information from within the home. From: In re Application of the United States of America for Historical Cell Site Data, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 115529 (S.D. Tex….