Annie Youderian reports: A federal judge in San Francisco trimmed the federal claims from a class action accusing AOL of illegally publishing a database of the search queries of more than 650,000 members. A group of California AOL members said the online publication of their queries violated various California consumer protection laws and three federal…
Category: Court
Jackson’s Dad Wants to Sue Over Death Photos
Privacy rights generally belong to the living, but it seems to me that I’m beginning to see a number of lawsuits involving photos of the dead. Previously on this site, I covered lawsuits by the families of Jeremy Wooten and Nikki Catsouras. Now Michael Jackson’s father wants leave to file suit over photos of Michael…
Privacy Rights in Death Photos: Catsouras Case Decided
Daniel Solove writes: Last year, I wrote about a case involving a lawsuit by a family against the California Highway Patrol (CHP) for improperly disseminating the accident-scene photos of their daughter (Nikki Catsouras), who perished in a gruesome automobile accident. Two dispatchers for the CHP emailed the photos to others, and they soon began being…
3rd Circuit to Mull Privacy of Cell Phone Data
Sharon P. Duffy reports: In a case that could prove to be one of the most important privacy rights battles of the modern era, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear argument this week on the proper legal standard to apply when prosecutors demand cell phone location data. The data, which are recorded…