Kevin Drews reports: British Columbia’s top court has stopped a class-action lawsuit filed by a Vancouver woman against Facebook Inc. over a now-defunct advertising product. Deborah Douez alleged the product known as Sponsored Stories used the names and images of Facebook members without their consent, breaching Section 4 of B.C.’s Privacy Act. But her case…
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Illinois Supreme Court Orders Identification of Anonymous Critic
Paul Alan Levy writes: In a decision issued yesterday in Hadley v. Subscriber Doe a/k/a Fuboy, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed lower court rulings that an anonymous commenter who responded to a local newspaper article by calling a local politician a “Sandusky waiting to be exposed,” making particular reference to the fact that he could see…
Revenge porn trickster pleads guilty in California case as federal trial nears
Cyrus Farivar reports: Charles Evens, the right-hand man of Hunter Moore, the creator of the now-defunct revenge porn site IsAnyoneUp.com, has pleaded guilty to “disruption of computer access,” according to California state prosecutors. Evens, 26, was charged in San Francisco Superior Court on 11 counts of “unauthorized access to computer” on June 10. Read more on Ars…
Google: “Revenge porn” and Search
From Google’s Public Policy Blog today: by Amit Singhal, SVP, Google Search We’ve heard many troubling stories of “revenge porn”: an ex-partner seeking to publicly humiliate a person by posting private images of them, or hackers stealing and distributing images from victims’ accounts. Some images even end up on “sextortion” sites that force people to…