Jeanette Oldham reports: A police community support officer has been forced to resign after being caught checking the criminal records of ex-school friends. Samantha Harron, 22, was also fined £200 after she admitted using the Police National Computer for snooping. As well as checking on former schoolmates, the West Midlands officer also carried out checks…
Category: Court
Ie: Abuse victims take privacy action against media
Two young victims of sexual abuse have claimed before the High Court that details contained in media reports of their attacker’s conviction for abusing them resulted in their loss of their anonymity and breached their constitutional right to privacy. The two who were abused by a male, who more than two years ago admitted to…
UK: Damages over Jolie-Pitt split claim
Hollywood superstars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have accepted undisclosed damages to settle their privacy action over claims that they were separating. The couple were not at London’s High Court on Thursday to hear solicitor-advocate Keith Schilling tell Mr Justice Eady that News Group Newspapers now accepted that each of the allegations was “false and…
Court: Violating Terms of Service Is Not a Crime, But Bypassing Technical Barriers Might Be
Marcia Hofmann writes: Good news: another federal judge has ruled that violating a website terms of service is not a crime. But there’s bad news, too — the court also found that bypassing technical or code-based barriers intended to limit access to or uses of a website may violate California’s computer crime law. The decision…