Richard Rainey reports: Citing defamation and “suffered embarrassment” allegedly caused by online comments posted at www.NOLA.com, Jefferson Parish interim President Steve Theriot has filed a lawsuit requesting the identities behind 11 user accounts on the website. The suit, which is seeking an unspecified amount of money for damages, alleges that anonymous comments left on the…
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Ca: Voyeurism alleged at posh eatery
Nadia Moharib reports: Police have laid a criminal charge against a former employee at a popular high-end restaurant who is accused of surreptitiously filming people in a washroom. Steven Craig Smith, 36, was charged with unlawfully making a video recording — a voyeurism charge — stemming from a May 2, 2010 incident. Police allege Smith…
9 Indicted In Obama Record Breach
Nine people have been indicated in federal court on charges they accessed President Barack Obama’s student loan records while employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa. The U.S. attorney’s office says a grand jury returned the indictments Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Davenport. The nine individuals are charged with exceeding authorized computer…
EPIC Urges New Jersey Supreme Court to Safeguard Privacy
From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed a “friend of the court” brief”, urging the New Jersey Supreme Court preserve the value of expungement and allow a privacy case to go forward. In G.D. v. Kenny, a New Jersey court dismissed a privacy claim involving publication of information about a prior criminal act, even though the state…