David Canton had an article on Canoe yesterday about the use of the plagiarism detector service, Turnitin.com. For those who weren’t aware of the case at the time, several students sued Turnitin.com last year, claiming that the service violated their copyright and was making a profit off their work. The court sided with Turnitin.com, in…
Category: Court
Judge won’t lower $5M bail for SF IT administrator
Robert McMillan reports: A Bay Area man who has spent nearly 14 months in jail after refusing to hand over administrative passwords to San Francisco’s city network is likely to remain incarcerated after a county judge denied his motion for reduced bail on Monday. Terry Childs has been held on a US$5 million bond since…
Email Snooping Can Be Intrusion Upon Seclusion
Attorney Evan D. Brown discusses a case that sheds some light on how courts may view a privacy invasion claim of “intrusion on seclusion” when a firm’s employee email is hosted in the cloud: Local elected official Steinbach had an email account that was issued by the municipality. Third party Hostway provided the technology for…
Gmail may hand over IP addresses of journalists
Julian Assange of WikiLeaks writes that: A California court has issued a subpoena demanding Google reveal the IP addresses of journalists writing for a corruption busting journal from the Caribbean. The August 28 subpoena [pdf], issued by the Superior Court, County of Santa Clara, as part of a “libel tourism” action taken by non-US property…