Vikki Ortiz Healy reports: A beauty school student thought he was offering classmates a place to vent when he created a Facebook page mocking teachers and classes. “Don’t be afraid to post comments on whats going on, this is yor voice too. All for one and one for all right?!” (sic) But two months later,…
Category: Court
2nd man charged in Florida sex-video voyeurism case
Karen Voyles reports: A Fort White man was being held at the Alachua County jail Friday for allegedly videotaping another man having sex with a woman who was unaware she was being recorded. Keniel Luis Alvarez, 21, who identified himself as a promoter, was arrested Sept. 10 and charged with video voyeurism, scheming to defraud,…
Facebook to shut down Beacon to settle lawsuit
Juan Carlos Perez reports: Facebook has agreed to shut down its much maligned Beacon advertising system in order to settle a class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed in August of last year, alleged that Facebook and its Beacon affiliates like Blockbuster and Overstock.com violated a series of laws, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Video…
DOJ says court should reject Google book search settlement
Juan Carlos Perez reports: The U.S. Department of Justice has come out against the proposed agreement to settle copyright lawsuits that authors and major publishers filed against Google over the search company’s book search program. “This Court should reject the Proposed Settlement in its current form and encourage the parties to continue negotiations,” reads a…