Chris Johnston reports: A Doncaster man who published the name of the victim of a sexual offence on the Facebook page of South Yorkshire police has been charged. Shane Ward, 31, of Edlington, commented on the police’s Facebook page post about the sexual offence court case and identified the victim. He was charged under Section 5 of the Sexual…
Category: Online
FBI seized child porn website with 215,000 users – court filing
Nate Raymond reports: A Federal Bureau of Investigation search warrant has provided a rare glimpse into the increasingly complex efforts of U.S. law enforcement to combat child pornography online, leading to the seizure this year of a website with nearly 215,000 users. The search warrant, unsealed on Monday in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, showed…
Privacy group files FTC complaint to push Google to extend right to be forgotten to US
Grant Gross reports: Google’s refusal to implement the EU’s controversial right to be forgotten rules in the U.S. amounts to an unfair and deceptive business practice, a frequent critic of the search engine giant said. Consumer Watchdog will file a complaint against Google with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission Tuesday, said John Simpson, director of…
Washington State Appellate Court Agrees That Florida Divorce Lawyer Should Not Be Permitted to Unmask Online Critic
In a precedent-setting case argued by Public Citizen, the Washington state Court of Appeals has determined [PDF] that anonymous online reviewers are entitled to basic First Amendment protections. In the case, the court denied a Florida divorce lawyer’s attempt to learn the identity of former client who wrote about her on Avvo, a Seattle-based website designed to…