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…
Category: Court
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…
“I’ve never heard of Far Cry,” says P2P defendant
Nate Anderson has the exclusive report: Last week, the law firm of Dunlap, Grubb, & Weaver dropped a letter in the mail. A few days ago it was opened by a woman whom we’ll call Sabine (she asked that her identity be kept private, and some details and dates of her case have been altered…
Oregon Judge Slaps Google With Restraining Order Over Private Wifi Data (updated)
Nick Saint reports: An Oregon judge has issued a restraining order forbidding Google from destroying data the company accidentally recorded from private wifi networks with its Street View cars. Google had announced its intention to consult with privacy advocates and governments about the best way to dispose of the data. Residents of Oregon and Washington…