David Canton comments on court rulings in Canada concerning unmasking anonymous posters or bloggers. He writes, in part: In Canada, there have been numerous instances where courts have required Internet service providers to release the identity of an individual if evidence can be produced that the accused has committed illegal or actionable behaviour. For example,…
Gmail Breach Lawsuit Can’t Be Secret, Judge Says
Thomas Claburn reports on an interesting breach-related lawsuit. Apparently, a Rocky Mountain Bank employee accidentally sent a confidential file containing customer names, addresses, tax identification numbers, and loan information for over 1,300 individuals and business clients to the wrong Gmail address. When the bank tried to contact the recipient of the errant email to…
Police ready to ‘take on’ commenters, chief says
Tony Plohetski reports: Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo says he and some of his officers have been harassed, lied about and had their identities falsely used in online blogs and in reader comment sections on local media Internet sites. They’ve had enough. In a meeting this month with department brass, Acevedo and the group discussed…
Judge rules for Harkat over search
Andrew Duffy reports: Canada’s border agency engaged in an unauthorized intelligence-gathering exercise, rather than a legitimate search, when it raided the home of Ottawa terror suspect Mohamed Harkat, a Federal Court judge has ruled. Judge Simon Noël said Harkat’s constitutional right to privacy was seriously breached in last month’s raid, which featured 16 law enforcement…