The Associated Press reports on another case where someone wants a court to order Google to provide information on an anonymous poster. In this case, the complaint involves not just comments but a YouTube posting: A business consultant wants a New York City court to force YouTube and owner Google to disclose who posted unauthorized…
Category: Court
Wiretap Act Violations Require Criminal Intent
Tim Hull reports: A son who used his iPhone to record a kitchen-table conversation about his dying mother’s will did not violate the federal Wiretap Act, the 2nd Circuit ruled, because he had no criminal intent. The federal appeals court in Manhattan joined its sister circuits in finding that the Act’s “exception to the one-party…
U.S. ends webcam probe; no charges
John P. Martin reports: Federal prosecutors on Tuesday closed their investigation into Lower Merion School District’s secret use of software to track student laptops, saying they found no evidence that anyone intentionally committed a crime. The decision, announced by U.S. Attorney Zane Memeger, ended a six-month probe by the FBI into allegations that district employees…
Amazon Case: We’re In!
Mariko Hirose writes: Last Friday, the district court in the Western District of Washington granted the motion to intervene that the ACLU filed on behalf of our clients in the lawsuit (PDF) challenging the North Carolina Department of Revenue’s (DOR) repeated requests for Amazon’s customer records in the course of its tax audit of Amazon….