Yet another court case involving nude photos on a cell phone. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a woman claiming Culpeper police officers distributed nude photos of her found on a cell phone seized when her boyfriend was arrested. U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon of Charlottesville ruled Thursday that Jessica Casella did…
In wake of wrist slap, ICO calls for tighter data abuse laws
A UK judge’s frustration that he could only fine a data leaker has the Information Commissioner calling for tighter laws…. Laws should be tightened to give judges the option to jail people found guilty of serious abuses of personal data, the UK’s Information Commissioner has said. Christopher Graham said penalties under the Data Protection Act…
Amazon offers to replace Orwell books on Kindles
Rachel Metz of Associated Press reports that Amazon.com is offering free replacement books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels “1984” and “Animal Farm” were deleted from their electronic reading devices in July. The deletion led to a class-action lawsuit started by one student who was using the book for…
People Can Be So Fake: A New Dimension To Privacy And Technology Scholarship
Ryan Calo at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society has a thought-provoking article, “People Can Be So Fake: A New Dimension To Privacy And Technology Scholarship.” Here’s the abstract: This article updates the traditional discussion of privacy and technology, focused since the days of Warren and Brandeis on the capacity of technology…