Only those media organisations which have already expressed an interest in a story need to be notified of a privacy-protecting court injunction, the High Court has said. Notification does not have to go to every media organisation in the country. The High Court ruled in the case of an un-named person whose laptop was stolen…
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NJ court: Blogger is not protected under shield law in defamation lawsuit
Following up on a case previously covered (here and here), MaryAnn Spoto reports: An appellate court ruled today a blogger who wrote about the online pornography industry is not protected under New Jersey’s shield law in a defamation lawsuit brought by a Freehold-based software company. In a 48-page ruling authored by Appellate Court Judge Anthony…
North Carolina defends request for Amazon.com customer records
As a follow-up to a story originally posted here a few days ago, Declan McCullagh reports: North Carolina’s tax collectors said Wednesday that they never demanded personal information such as book titles from Amazon.com, which filed a federal lawsuit against the state this week seeking to keep that information confidential. “Amazon’s complaint is misleading in…
Article: The Puzzle of Brandeis, Privacy, and Speech
Over on Concurring Opinions, Danielle Citron calls our attention to this article by Neil Richards: The Puzzle of Brandeis, Privacy, and Speech Neil M. Richards Washington University School of Law Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 63, 2010 Abstract: Most courts and scholarship assume that privacy and free speech are always in conflict, even though each of…