Not only is the Lower Merion School District garnering increasing negative media coverage as new data emerges about the extent to which it used a webcam feature to take and store digital images of students in their homes and as an employee pleads the Fifth Amendment, but it seems that Lower Merion’s own insurance company…
Category: Court
Amazon fights demand for customer records
Declan McCullagh reports: Amazon.com filed a lawsuit on Monday to fend off a sweeping demand from North Carolina’s tax collectors: detailed records including names and addresses of customers and information about exactly what they purchased. The lawsuit says the demand violates the privacy and First Amendment rights of Amazon’s customers. North Carolina’s Department of Revenue…
Palin set to take stand in Tenn. hacking trial
Bill Poovey of the Associated Press reports that David Kernell, the former student accused of hacking into Sarah Palin’s email account, has reason to be concerned about Palin’s appearance as a witness in his trial: U.S. District Judge Thomas Phillips has denied a defense motion to have prospective jurors answer a questionnaire asking if they…
Judge Says Internet Privacy Lawsuit Can’t Be Private
Darryl Huff reports from Honolulu: A Hawaii woman who said her ex-boyfriend posted sexual pictures of her on the Internet is not being allowed to sue him anonymously. The woman’s attorney, Christopher K. Ridder of San Francisco, said if his client is forced to reveal her name, it would make the invasion of privacy over…