Adam Goldstein writes: The prior restraint a Wyoming judge placed on two newspapers was lifted today, which is great; but the institution that abused student privacy law to get the court order hasn’t faced consequences yet. If you need backstory: Laramie County Community College convinced a Wyoming judge to issue a prior restraint preventing two…
Category: Court
Google saves, secures Wi-Fi snooping data
Gregg Keizer reports: Google said that it has secured the data it obtained through its Street View Wi-Fi snooping, but will fight a class-action lawsuit’s demand that it turn over more information, court documents showed today. In a pair of filings to an Oregon federal court, Google said that it has copied all the data…
Google Sued For Vacuuming WiFi Data
Thomas Claburn reports on a second potential class-action lawsuit that has been filed against Google over its Street View cars snarfing up payload data from unsecured wi-fi networks. Following Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s admission that his company “screwed up” by inadvertently using its Street View cars to collect data traveling over unprotected WiFi networks, three…
Are Confidentiality Contracts Enforceable? Tiger Woods, Elin Nordegren, and Paying for Silence
Daniel Solove writes: The NY Daily News reports on rumors of a potential $750 million divorce settlement proposal in the impending divorce of Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren: Woods hasn’t agreed yet, but if he does he wants total silence from his soon-to-be ex about the collapse of their marriage – forever, according to the…