Bob Egelko reports: A federal judge refused Wednesday to block a voter-approved California law requiring anyone arrested on a felony charge to provide DNA samples, saying genetic information is similar to fingerprints and helps police solve crimes. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer of San Francisco rejected an American Civil Liberties Union request to halt enforcement…
Category: Court
Facebook sex blackmail teen facing 50 years
From the Associated Press: A Wisconsin teenager who blackmailed dozens of fellow high school students into sex acts by using photos and videos obtained in a Facebook scam is facing up to 50 years in prison after pleading no contest to two felonies. Anthony R Stancl, 19, of New Berlin, had faced 12 charges that…
Condé Nast Makes Strong Case To Unmask Blogger Who Posted Leaked Content
Wendy Davis reports: Condé Nast has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against unknown users who allegedly hacked into the company’s computer system, downloaded unpublished photos and articles, and then published them online. In papers filed in federal district court in New York, Condé Nast alleges that a host of material — including a big chunk…
Google Rests Its Defense of Executives in Italian Privacy Case
Eric Sylvers reports: Lawyers for Google rested their case in defense of four executives charged in Italy with failing to comply with privacy laws, telling a judge that the company has a mechanism in place to rapidly remove objectionable video from its site. […] Italian prosecutors had argued at a hearing last month that Google,…