Director Roman Polanski has won damages from a French newspaper that photographed him in the Swiss home where he is confined pending extradition proceedings on rape charges. A Paris court convicted French daily Aujourd’hui en France, with its Paris edition Le Parisien, of breaching Polanski’s privacy. It ordered the newspaper to pay 3000 euros ($A4671)…
Category: Court
Court to Rule on Right to Privacy for Referendum Petition Signers
Adam Liptak reports: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether the First Amendment requires that the names of people who sign ballot-initiative petitions be kept secret. As in the court’s decision on Wednesday to block the broadcasting of the trial of a challenge to a ban on same-sex marriage in California, the appeal…
WHOIS Privacy Considered “Material Falsification”
Ryan Sadler writes: A recent decision by the Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has determined that using WHOIS privacy on domains may be considered “material falsification” under federal law. The defendants in US v. Kilbride (9th Cir., 2009) were convicted under the CAN-SPAM Act in a case that involved criminal charges of intentional…
9th Circuit Sympathetic to Privacy Act Suit Over Release of Pilot’s HIV Status
Mike McKee reports: Stanmore Cooper admits he shouldn’t have concealed his HIV status when filling out a medical form for pilots, but he was horrified when that information was freely shared among several federal agencies. A sympathetic-sounding 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals seemed ready Wednesday to let the San Francisco man proceed with a…