Today’s news includes a case in Australia involving unmasking anonymous online posters and successfully suing them for defamation. Tony Wright describes the background of the case: The action against Graeme Gladman began after highly uncomplimentary comments appeared last November under pseudonyms on the HotCopper website, a stockmarket forum. The postings related to technology security company…
Category: Court
Movie studios appeal against iiNet piracy ruling
Hollywood film studios today lodged an appeal against a landmark legal judgment which found an Australian Internet provider was not responsible for illegal movie downloads by its customers. The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), representing a consortium of 34 studios, said the Federal Court’s ruling was out of step with well-established copyright law. “The…
Suit possible over baby DNA sent to military lab for national database
Mary Ann Roser reports: An Austin lawyer threatened to pursue a new federal lawsuit Monday after learning that some newborn blood samples in Texas went to the U.S. military for potential use in a database for law enforcement purposes. The Department of State Health Services never mentioned the database to Jim Harrington, director of the…
Italian Court Finds Google Violated Privacy
Eric Sylvers and Eric Pfanner report: Three Google executives were convicted of violating Italian privacy laws on Wednesday in a case that the company says could undermine freedom of expression on the Internet. The case involved online videos showing an autistic boy being bullied by classmates in Turin. They were posted in 2006 on Google…