There are a couple of interesting new posts around the blogosphere concerning anonymous online commenters. The first, over at Volokh, discusses a recent case out of Tennessee, State v. Cobbins, where a judge denied defendants’ motion to require a media outlet to disable a portion of its Web site enabling Web users to post comments…
NZ credit firms eye privacy changes
Credit-reporting firms are pushing for a privacy law change to collect more information on New Zealanders seeking finance. The privacy commissioner’s office is reviewing the proposal as part of a wider review of credit reporting in New Zealand, but an academic says it could force more Kiwis to turn to loan sharks for finance. Credit-reporting…
Tony Trout sentenced for computer spying
A federal judge sentenced former Greenville County councilman Tony Trout to one year in prison on computer spying charges on Wednesday, telling the former police officer that he violated the public’s trust and should be held to a higher standard. In a tearful apology, Trout told U.S. District Judge Henry Floyd that he was wrong…
Lost in the Cloud
Jonathan Zittrain, a law professor at Harvard and the author of “The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It,” had an op-ed in The New York Times about the dangers of cloud computing. He writes, in part: The cloud, however, comes with real dangers. Some are in plain view. If you entrust…