Sports reporter Erin Andrews has filed a lawsuit alleging the hotels where a peephole stalker secretly videotaped her were negligent, according to a statement from the law firm representing her. The lawsuit also accuses Michael David Barrett, who has pleaded guilty to stalking the ESPN reporter, of invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional…
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Wis. Supreme Court rules on e-mail privacy (updated)
The Associated Press reports: Wisconsin government employees can safely send personal e-mail messages on their work computers without worrying that they will have to make them public, under a ruling Friday by the state Supreme Court. The court ruled that just because a public employee uses a work computer to send an e-mail, it doesn’t…
Ca: Prison staff win legal case after personal info leaked to inmates
Kathleen Harris reports: A group of federal prison guards has won a landmark legal case against the government of Canada after an employee list with home phone numbers, addresses and names of spouses circulated through the penitentiary housing dangerous psychopaths and sociopaths. Up to 400 staff of Ontario’s Joyceville Institution – from correctional officers right…
IA: Appeals court upholds ruling in ID theft case
Grant Schulte reports: Anyone who uses false personal information to commit fraud can be found guilty of identity theft in Iowa, even if he didn’t know the information belonged to someone else, the Iowa Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. The decision stemmed from the arrest of an illegal immigrant, Jose Abel Garcia, who was caught…