David Ferrara reports: A Nevada blogger has asked a judge to toss an invasion of privacy lawsuit filed by Las Vegas personal injury lawyer Adam Kutner. Earlier this week, in a motion to dismiss Kutner’s suit from September 2013, lawyers for the blogger known only as Legal Eagle said the two-year statute of limitations on…
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Seattle man sentenced to jail for revenge porn
Sara Jean Green reports that a computer technician is off to jail for stealing and posting nude photos of women on a revenge porn site: A 31-year-old Seattle man was sentenced to one year in jail on Friday for posting nude photos of women on two different websites in a bizarre case of “revenge porn.” Jeremy…
Murky Federal Privacy Law Puts MOOC Student Data in Questionable Territory
D. Frank Smith reports: The federal government may be legally powerless to protect data collected from students taking massive open online courses (MOOCs), according to a U.S. Department of Education spokeswoman, and two of the largest MOOC platforms disagree on the boundaries of the law in question. MOOC platforms have amassed a treasure trove of…
Complaint Says Ring Pop Campaign Violated Children’s Privacy
Natasha Singer reports: In many ways, it was a typical social media marketing campaign featuring user-generated content — only this promotion involved a brand popular with children. Earlier this year, the company behind Ring Pop, a jewel-shaped sucking candy on a plastic ring, ran a contest called #RockThatRock. It invited users to post photos on Facebook, Twitter…