On May 26, 2010, the court in Crispin v. Christian Audigier, Inc. quashed portions of subpoenas seeking the disclosure of private messages sent through Facebook and MySpace. The court left open the question of whether Crispin’s wall postings and comments should be disclosed pending a more thorough review of his online privacy settings. On February…
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AU: Govt wants ISPs to record browsing history
Ben Grubb reports: The Attorney-General’s Department yesterday confirmed to ZDNet Australia that it had been in discussions with industry on implementing a data retention regime in Australia. Such a regime would require companies providing internet access to log and retain customer’s private web browsing history for a certain period of time for law enforcement to…
Tagged.com faces new lawsuit over failure to protect children from porn
If Tagged.com thought that its troubles with NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo were in the past, they apparently thought wrong. Cuomo issued a press release today that he is planning to sue the social networking site — this time, for failing to protect children from being exposed to graphic images of child pornography: … a…
Judge limits DHS warrantless laptop searches
Dan Goodin reports: A federal judge has thrown out key evidence in a child pornography trial because the laptop alleged to contain more than 1,000 illegal images wasn’t searched until about five months after US customs officials seized it at a US border crossing. The ruling by US District Judge Jeffrey S. White of the…