From EFF: A coalition of authors and publishers—including best-sellers Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, and technical author Bruce Schneier—is urging a federal judge to reject the proposed settlement in a lawsuit over Google Book Search, arguing that the sweeping agreement to digitize millions of books ignores critical privacy rights for readers and writers. The group of…
Category: Court
Student accused of accessing Palin’s email can’t screen jury on political views
The Associated Press reports that a federal judge in Knoxville denied a request by lawyers for David C. Kernell to screen potential jurors by questionnaire about their political views and their attitudes about Sarah Palin. Kernell is on trial after being indicted (pdf) for accessing Palin’s e-mail account. He allegedly figured out the correct answers…
St. Paul man sentenced in Duluth for Internet crime
Jana Hollingsworth of Duluth News Tribune reports: A University of Minnesota Duluth student convicted of threatening to damage his cousin’s social networking and e-mail accounts to obtain nude photos of her over the Internet was sentenced Friday to electronic monitoring and probation. Judge Heather Sweetland sentenced Anthony Phillip Dzik, 24, of St. Paul to 45…
Google Books privacy policy: good start, much more needed
Cindy Cohn of EFF has a commentary on Google’s new privacy policy for Google Books that suggests that the new policy is better, but not sufficient. Cohen writes: Late yesterday afternoon, September 3, 2009, Google finally issued a privacy policy for Google Books, both the current service and the extensive new book-related services they hope…