Nancy Danforth Zeronda has a NOTE in the May issue of the Vanderbilt Law Review, Street Shootings: Covert Photography and Public Privacy. Much of the article seems to address cases involving upskirt photography. The last section of the NOTE addresses another approach to redress for individuals whose privacy has been invaded in public spaces: After…
Category: Court
Appeals court absolves firm that exposed man’s SSN
What constitutes a privacy harm? For those of us covering data breaches and privacy breaches, there’s been a somewhat disturbing trend by courts to restrict the notion of “harm” to unreimbursed financial harm due to a breach. Worry, embarrassment, time lost, and increased risk of future harm are recognized as being consequences, but generally, plaintiffs…
Lawsuits over Google Wi-Fi sniffing pile on
Robert McMillan reports: Nearly three weeks after admitting that it had sniffed sensitive data from open wireless networks around the world, Google is now facing at least seven U.S. class-action lawsuits over its practice. […] John Simpson, an advocate with California’s Consumer Watchdog, says that he’s not surprised to see so many class action lawsuits….
AU: Court uses Facebook to serve paternity test order
Kim Arlington reports: In a case which highlights the difficulties of keeping a low profile when you have a Facebook account, a court has ordered that the social networking site be used to serve legal documents on an elusive father in a child support dispute. The federal magistrate who made the order, Stewart Brown, said…