Japanese prosecutors seized on Tuesday records from the operator of the YouTube video-sharing website that may help identify who made public on the site videos of the September collisions between two Japanese patrol boats and a Chinese fishing boat in disputed waters, investigative sources said. Investigators from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office seized the…
Category: Court
Gaos v. Google, New Class Action Suit Filed Regarding Use of Referral URLs
Eilizabeth Banker writes: A class action lawsuit filed against Google on October 25th in the Northern District of California may have the Googlers feeling like it is perhaps true that no good deed goes unpunished. The suit, Gaos v. Google, alleges that Google violated the Stored Communications Act as well as several California state consumer…
Anonymous litigation by juveniles: dissent in Jacob Doe v. Kamehameha Schools
I freely admit I’m a huge fan of Chief Judge Kozinski, particularly when he’s dissenting from a majority opinion that concerns surveillance or other privacy issues. In this case, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had declined to rehear a case en banc. At issue is the right of juvenile plaintiffs to file a…
Clementi And The Nature Of Privacy Harm
Ryan Calo writes: Ann Bartow once criticized Daniel Solove for not providing enough “dead bodies” in his discussion of privacy. I tend to disagree that such proof is necessary. But privacy has seen a dead body recently—that of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi. The narrative around Clementi’s tragic suicide continues to shift. The press originally reported that…