First they got First Amendment rights. Now they want privacy protections. Next they’ll want the car keys… I’ve been reading various sites covering the news that the Supreme Court will consider the question of whether corporations have the same privacy rights as people. SCOTUSBlog.com summarizes the issue before the court in FTC v. AT&T…
Category: Court
Rutgers student believed to have jumped off George Washington Bridge after secret sex taping
Did an invasion of privacy result in a suicide? This may be one of the saddest news stories I’ve ever covered on this blog. Bob Holt reports that a recent suicide may be linked to reports that two young people secretly taped sexual encounters and uploaded them to the Internet: Authorities said a Ridgewood student…
UK case law: DFT v TFD and “super-injunctions”
On Monday 27 September 2010, Mrs Justice Sharp handed down an important judgment in a privacy case which had previously been the subject of a so-called “super injunction”. The judgment in the case of DFT v TFD ([2010] EWHC 2335 (QB)) concerned a blackmail case in which a woman was threatening to make public private and…
Ca: Teen confesses to naughty video
QMI Agency reports: Modern technology and teenage tomfoolery came to a head Tuesday in a Calgary-area courtroom. A “naive” teenage boy, with his embarrassed parents seated behind him, stood before a provincial court judge to admit a “prank” made him a criminal. The teen pleaded guilty to two voyeurism-related charges after he used his BlackBerry…