Evan Brown writes: Zinna v. Cook, No. 06-1733, 2010 WL 3604386 (D. Colo. September 7, 2010) Plaintiff sued for violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) claiming that defendants intercepted his email messages and posted them to a website called ColoradoWackoExposed.com. Defendants moved for summary judgment. The court granted the motion. Read Evan’s commentary…
Category: Court
Man drops lawsuit against Manitoba judge
As a follow-up to a case previously mentioned here, Kenyon Wallace reports: The man responsible for a sex scandal at the heart of the Manitoba judiciary has decided to drop his lawsuit against Associate Chief Justice Lori Douglas, conceding on Tuesday that he has insufficient evidence to proceed. Alex Chapman agreed to back down from…
Solove’s Post Regarding the Role of Harm in Privacy Litigation
Privacy lawyer Andy Serwin responds to a blog entry by fellow privacy lawyer Daniel Solove on data breaches and “harm:” Dan Solove has written extensively on privacy theory as well as harm in the data breach context and recently posted on harm in the data breach context. Solove’s post discusses the issues plaintiff’s face in privacy litigation…
Are People Really Harmed By a Data Security Breach?
Daniel Solove comments on the implications of the Maine Supreme Court’s decision that victims of the Hannaford Bros. breach cannot sue under Maine law for effort and time lost because they are not “cognizable injuries.” There’s just so much goodness in his blog entry that I am at a loss as to what to excerpt….