It seems like just yesterday I was noting some progress in the courts in protecting online anonymous speech. Then today I came across this article by Douglas Lee about how the Illinois Court of Appeals rejected the Dendrite and Cahill standards in a case where anonymous online posters accused individuals of bribing public officials: It’s…
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Apple customers have no privacy under new policy
Bruce Tyson writes: Unexpected new privacy rules give Apple and its associated “partners and licensees” the legal right to track, monitor, and store the whereabouts of its customers in real time. Users who do not agree to these draconian measures are prohibited from downloading from the iTunes store. Apple says that its customers’ consent to…
Recommended: Contracts and Privacy
Last week, this site posted an update to the Canadian case where a customer sued Rogers Wireless for bundling her cell phone account without her authorization. Gabriela Nagy claims that her husband discovered that she had had an affair when he looked at the detailed phone records that were included in the newly bundled account….
Defamation Lawsuit: How PogoWasRight.org Fought Back
As a pseudoanonymous blogger and privacy advocate, I’ve occasionally blogged about the use or abuse of legal process to unmask anonymous bloggers or to silence critics (cf, the “Stokklerk” case, the attempts to unmask critics of a development project, the A.Z. v. Doe case, and the HipCheck16 case). Despite some progress made, most notably in…