A blog owner can avoid liability for user-generated content that appears on his site without being checked or moderated, the High Court has ruled. But fixing the spelling or grammar in users’ posts could lose him that protection, it said. The Court ruled that the operator of blogging site Labourhome.org could not have a libel…
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Hello! pays Jude Law privacy damages
Mark Sweney reports: Jude Law has settled a breach of privacy action with Hello! magazine, with the magazine agreeing to pay £9,500 in damages and undertaking not to publish any pictures of the Alfie star with his children until they are 18. Law launched a legal action against the celebrity weekly for breach of privacy…
Judge in Sarah Palin e-mail hacking case denies motion challenging computer search
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: FBI agents did not violate alleged hacker David Kernell’s Fourth Amendment rights when they searched through the entire contents of his computer in connection with their investigation, a federal magistrate judge ruled this week in the Sarah Palin e-mail hacking case. In a 41-page ruling this week, Judge Clifford Shirley in Knoxville…
State Farm Challenges Constitutionality of Canadian Privacy Law
Michael Geist writes: Later this month, the Federal Court of Canada will hear a case in Halifax that threatens Canada’s privacy law framework. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. is contesting the constitutional validity of Canada’s private sector privacy legislation (PIPEDA), arguing it oversteps the federal government’s jurisdictional power. My weekly technology law column (Toronto…