From the ACLU of Vermont: There is a high wall protecting the secrecy of police investigations, and it can be breached in only very limited circumstances, argued a lawyer for the Vermont Attorney General’s Office in Superior Court in Montpelier on Monday. But if Vermonters can’t get information about how police are conducting investigations, how…
Category: Court
Porn studio a step closer to revealing pirates’ IDs
Greg Sandoval reports: Few film companies are assailing piracy with the vigor of Third World Media. Third World Media (TMW), a porn studio headquartered north of Los Angeles, filed a lawsuit two weeks ago against 1,568 unnamed individuals, accusing them of using peer-to-peer networks to unlawfully share copies of “Miss Big Ass Brazil #4,” records…
Zynga Sued Over Sharing Facebook Users’ Data, Lawyer Pledges More Suits To Come
Wendy Davis reports on the first of what is almost certain to be a rash of lawsuits against Facebook application developers: A Minnesota resident is suing game developer Zynga for allegedly selling personal information about Facebook users to advertisers. “Unbeknownst to Zynga users, and in violation of Zynga’s agreement with Facebook, Inc. and privacy laws,…
Privacy in the context of litigation–Subpoenas–Anonymous posting and subpoenas–Anonymous subpoenas and the Sony standard
Andy Serwin writes: While anonymous subpoenas regarding anonymous speech receive certain protections, in the peer-to-peer context courts apply a different standard.The main case on point involves Sony, and the Sony test has been expressed as requiring: (1) a concrete showing of a prima facie claim of actionable harm, (2) specificity of the discovery request, (3)…