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…
Category: Court
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….
AU: Pipeline protester Jan Beer takes government to court
Melissa Fyfe reports: One of the Brumby government’s most vocal critics is taking it to court over what has been described as an ”astounding” breach of her privacy. Jan Beer, who has led the fight against the north-south pipeline, will take her case to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal tomorrow, after conciliation with the…
CA: Novato Taxi owner takes privacy case to court
Rob Rogers reports: Novato Taxi owner Dan Carlson says he’s ready to battle county and Novato officials in court Monday for the right to keep his employees’ drug test results private. “We didn’t get the ruling we wanted (Friday), so we’re going to pursue this again,” said Carlson, whose company has been closed since June…