Inforrm’s Blog recaps three privacy lawsuits that failed in the courts this past week. One of the unsuccessful cases (Hickey) has previously been mentioned on this site. And while I covered Van Morrison’s successful privacy case against News of the World, it seems that he was not successful in a second similar action against the Sunday Independent….
Category: Court
Creepy factor: Hyatt guest claims she found male employee wearing her underwear
Here’s another example of where a privacy violation can cause emotional harm and distress. What a court will do with this, I have no idea, but see what you think. Ameet Sachdev reports: Dayanara Fernandez of Los Angeles says that when she walked into her room at the Hyatt in Deerfield this summer, she was…
WA: ‘Robo-call’ law in limbo after lawsuit fails
Mike Carter reports on a lawsuit filed by a man who got annoyed with Talbots (the women’s clothing chain) for their automated sales call. He sued them for allegedly violating the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Washington Automatic Dialing and Answering Devices Act (WADAD). The case was dismissed because the judge ruled that…
Meta-data subject to public records law
Gene Johnson of The Associated Press reports: Metadata associated with electronic documents — such as the “to” and “from” fields in e-mails — is a public record subject to disclosure, Washington’s Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The 5-4 ruling concerned a Shoreline resident’s request under the Public Records Act for an e-mail that had been sent…