The Associated Press reports: A judge has ordered Google Brasil to pay $118,000 to Formula One’s Rubens Barrichello for failing to remove from the social-networking site fake profiles that mocked the Brazilian driver. The judge says Google took too long to remove the profiles after being notified by Barrichello. The decision by a tribunal court…
Category: Court
Ca: Man hacked into girls’ computers to videotape them
Sue Montgomery reports on a case where some people are probably wishing there could be a death penalty: Daniel Lesiewicz used his computer savvy to hack into young girls’ computers, pose as someone they knew, then convince them to undress in front of their webcams. If they didn’t continue with his game, he threatened to…
Article: The Puzzle of Brandeis, Privacy, and Speech
Neil Richards has an article, “The Puzzle of Brandeis, Privacy, and Speech” in the Vanderbilt Law Review (2010). Here’s the abstract: Most courts and scholarship assume that privacy and free speech are always in conflict, even though each of these traditions can be traced back to writings by Louis D. Brandeis—his 1890 Harvard Law Review article The Right…
Free speech battle over ‘Girls Gone Wild’ lawsuit
Greg Bluestein of The Associated Press reports that there is a First Amendment battle over whether the plaintiffs in a civil suit against Girls Gone Wild producer Joe Francis should be able to protect their names from publication. Not surprisingly, the press is arguing for the discretion as to whether their publish their names, but…