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…
Category: Court
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…
Commentary: The Virginia Watchdog back in court
The Virginia Watchdog case was back in court this week. PogoWasRight.org has been following this case and the efforts of Betty “BJ” Ostergren since 2006. If you’re new to the case, the matter is simple to explain: BJ doesn’t want states putting your Social Security numbers online in their publicly available databases like land records…