If Google felt a bit under siege these days, I wouldn’t diagnose them with corporate paranoia. They really are getting slammed everywhere over the wi-fi payload data collection. Here’s just a small sampling of reactions and stories in the news today, sent in by a thoughtful reader: Australia: Privacy class action in offing for Google…
Category: Court
Man accused of taping 40 to 50 women, girls
Mariann Martin reports: The prosecutor handling the case of the Jackson man charged with videotaping under the skirts of women and girls at their church told a judge the final case likely will include 40 to 50 women and girls. Richard Glenn Rushton, 50, is charged with unlawful photographing in violation of privacy and observation…
UAE: Accountant is jailed for secretly filming flatmate
Awad Mustafa reports: A Filipino accountant has been sentenced to six months in jail after he confessed to using an iPhone to record a woman using the bathroom of a mixed-sex apartment. RB, 29, was charged with sexual assault after prosecutors presented video evidence downloaded from his handset showing him placing the phone inside a…
Time Warner Cable Resists Mass BitTorrent Lawsuit
David Kravets reports: A consortium of independent film producers is hitting a stumbling block in its plan to simultaneously sue thousands of BitTorrent users for allegedly downloading pirated movies. Time Warner Cable is refusing to look up and turn over the identities of about a thousand of its customers targeted in the lawsuits, on the…