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…
Category: Court
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…
Countrywide Sold Private Info, Class Claims
Tim Hull reports: Countrywide Financial employees stole and sold “tens of thousands, or millions” of customers’ personal financial information, invading their privacy and exposing them to identity theft, a class action claims in Ventura County Court, Calif. The class seeks to know, among other things, whether Countryside merely aided and abetted the theft and illegal…