Paul Mones reports: A state employee group has asked an Oklahoma County judge to block the release of the birth dates of state employees after an Open Records Act request by The Oklahoman. The c filed the motion for a temporary restraining order and temporary injunction Monday against the state’s Office of Personnel Management. A…
Category: Court
Ramifications of Google ruling far-reaching
David Canton comments on the recent conviction of three Google executives over a video they neither created nor posted: The ramifications of this decision are far-reaching. If directors of international companies can be held personally responsible for every last item posted on their websites, this could create a climate of censorship preventing any possibly controversial…
Israel Supreme Court: Talkbackers needn’t be exposed in libel cases
Nurit Roth reports: Surfers who post comments on Web sites scored a victory in Israel’s Supreme Court last week. The vice president of the country’s highest court, Eliezer Rivlin, and Justice Edmond Levy handed down a majority ruling that Internet service providers cannot be forced to disclose the identity of anonymous posters, even at the…
Computer repairer who stole clients’ photos jailed
A Kapiti Coast (NZ) computer repairer who took innocent family pictures from the computers of clients for his own use has been jailed for 2 1/2 years. Wellington District Court judge Bruce Davidson said yesterday there was a “disturbing and sinister complexion” to Ian Mead’s actions that made him recoil when shown samples by the…