Greg Risling of The Associated Press reports: “Die Hard” director John McTiernan was sentenced to one year in prison Monday for lying about his association with a private investigator to illegally wiretap a movie producer. In a stinging rebuke of the 59-year-old McTiernan, U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer said he should receive a harsher sentence…
Category: Court
UK: More councils named and shamed in child protection cases
Adam Wagner reports that a UK judge recently held that public interest warranted revealing the name of a Council involved in child protection charges, even if there was some privacy risk to the children: Coventry City Council v X, Y and Z (Care Proceedings: Costs: Identification of Local Authority) [2010] EWHC B22 (Fam) –Read judgment…
If we know a privacy invasion when we see one, why aren’t we responding more forcefully?
In “What Privacy Invasion Looks Like,” Jim Harper writes: The details of Tyler Clementi’s case are slowly revealing themselves. He was the Rutgers University freshman whose sex life was exposed on the Internet when fellow students Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei placed a webcam in his dorm room, transmitting the images that it captured in real…
Revenge Attacks Take Down Lawyer And Ministry Of Sound
Peter Judge reports: Law firm Gallant Macmillan and its client, Ministry of Sound, have disappeared from the web on the day they appear in court, suing for details of PlusNet subscribers who may have downloaded music illegally. Meanwhile, ACS:Law, a previous victim of denial of service attacks, has said it may go out of business….