Yesterday I posted a news story by Andy Furillo that appeared in the Sacramento Bee. A judge’s order concerning a juror’s Facebook posts had left me with a “gut” reaction that something was not right with the order. The text of the order itself does not seem to be available online. Furillo explains: The Facebook…
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P2P lawyer accused of issuing ISP subpoenas without court approval
Nate Anderson writes: A few weeks ago, a man headed home from work and found that his wife had already opened a letter from their ISP, Comcast. The letter said that the man’s IP address had been fingered by Mick Haig Productions, a German film producer suing 670 people in a Dallas federal court. […]…
Art ‘dating site’ steals 1m Facebook profiles: Is the site a comment on privacy, or a breach of privacy – or both?
Yesterday, Ryan Singel reported on a site that had scraped publicly available Facebook profiles to create a “dating site,” Lovely-Faces.com. Bets were quickly placed as to how long it would be before Facebook’s lawyers got in touch with the site’s creators. But the site is not really a dating site, according to its creators. According…
In Europe, a Right to Be Forgotten Trumps the Memory of the Internet
I recently blogged about the “right to be forgotten” and got some thought-provoking comments from commenters. Today, I see a new article on the topic in The Atlantic. Here are some snippets: … This developing right, authorities in several European countries suggest, would allow an individual to control and sometimes eliminate his or her data trail…