Kirk Makin reports: The Supreme Court of Canada transformed the country’s libel laws Tuesday with a pair of decisions that proponents say will expand the boundaries of free speech. The court ruled that libel lawsuits will rarely succeed against journalists who act responsibly in reporting their stories when those stories are in the public interest….
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Fr: Polanski sues French magazines over family photos
The AFP reports: Roman Polanski, under house arrest in Switzerland on child sex charges, is suing French magazines for publishing photos the director feels infringed his privacy, legal sources said on Tuesday. The pictures were taken when the 76-year-old Oscar-winner returned to his chalet in the chic Swiss Alpine resort of Gstaad to continue his…
Israeli police gun down Macbook at border
Speaking of border searches involving laptops, have you read this story by Bar Ben Ari and Or Hirshauga: An American student entering Israel from Egypt via the border crossing at Taba two weeks ago stood stunned as Israeli Border Police officers determined her laptop computer was a security threat and shot it three times. Lily…
Canadian court orders litigant to request her Facebook records from ISP
Toronto attorney Dan Michaluk blogs: On December 2nd, the New Brunswick Court of Queen’s bench ordered a plaintiff in a disability insurance claim to obtain “a history of her computer account use” from her ISP and “request” her ISP to generate a record accounting for her FaceBook use. The case is Carter v. Connors, 2009…