Geoff Mulvhill of Associated Press reports: A lawyer for a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate’s intimate encounter with another man says in newly filed legal papers that prosecutors got it all wrong and that the case should be dropped. Nineteen-year-old Dharun Ravi faces 15 charges, including bias intimidation and…
Category: Youth & Schools
Facebook Claims It Can Use Kids’ ‘Likes’ As it Likes, Wants Class Action Tossed
Joe Harris reports: Facebook asked a federal judge to dismiss a class action accusing it of exploiting children, claiming that Facebook users’ “like” statements qualify as matters of public interest. “Expressions of consumer opinion, such as the plaintiffs’ Like statements challenged here, have repeatedly qualified as matters of public interest under the First Amendment,” Facebook…
TX: Accuser’s dad drops cyberbullying suit
Cindy George reports: A Houston lawyer has dropped his defamation of character lawsuit against three Kingwood girls he accused of cyberbullying his daughter with a Facebook video. “There’s been a settlement agreement between all parties,” Jason Medley’s attorney, Robert Naudin, said on Wednesday. “What we obtained were the apologies, a very small donation and assurances…
Posing as a different Facebook user can constitute identity theft, US court rules
A California Court of Appeal ruled that a school pupil had committed identity theft under Californian laws when he obtained a schoolmate’s email password, used it to gain access to her Facebook account, and posted sexually suggestive messages whilst posing as the girl. Wilfully obtaining personal identifying information and using it “for an unlawful purpose”…