The lawyer who has threatened Facebook with a defamation suit on behalf of boxing promoter Frank Warren has said that he may take action against internet service providers (ISPs) for US-published defamation. Taylor Heath said that boxer Amir Khan had considered taking action but was withdrawing any intention to act. He said that no decision…
Rights need protection in blogosphere
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,…