Bill Simmon is a filmmaker, blogger, board member of the Vermont ACLU, and media educator. Simmon offers his opinion on the implications of a NY court’s decision to order Google to out an anonymous blogger and alerts us to yet another case. Simmon writes, in part: Critics of Ms. Port (and the countless anonymous Internet…
Facebook fights Virginia’s demand for user data, photos
Declan McCullagh reports: The state of Virginia has backed away from its attempts to force Facebook to divulge the complete contents of a user’s account to settle a dispute over workers’ compensation, narrowly avoiding what promised to be a high-profile privacy battle in federal court. On Monday, the Virginia’s Workers Compensation Commission said it was…
Why a New York court unmasked the blogger who wrote harshly about a model
Julie Hilden, an attorney with a special interest in First Amendment law, recently took the New York courts somewhat to task for their lax standard in the case involving Rosemary Port and Liskula Cohen. She writes, in part: But could any reasonable person have read this material and truly believed, with any degree of confidence,…
The high cost of Internet (de)fame
Robert X. Cringely writes: If it seems like Notes From the Field is turning into the Notes From the Land of Internet Defamation and Anonymity, my apologies. But this is a topic that I’ve sunk my teeth into and now I can’t seem to unsink them. After my recent posts about Liskula Cohen (“Skanks for…