More on the recent court opinion involving the lawsuit over AOL’s 1006 release of search query data that wasn’t as anonymous as they thought. Maria Dinzeo reports: A federal judge found AOL accountable for disclosing personal information of 658,000 of its customers. U.S. District Judge Sandra Armstrong ruled that AOL’s accidental posting of its customers’…
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Erin Andrews files lawsuit against stalker, hotels
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…
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…