Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that he has served the social networking site Tagged.com (“Tagged”) with formal notice that his office intends to sue the company for deceptive email marketing practices and invasion of privacy. According to Cuomo’s notice of intent, Tagged devised an illegal plan to lure new members and artificially inflate…
Botswana court rules on privacy violation
In the first case of its kind in Botswana, a woman has successfully sued another woman for publicly revealing her HIV status. The High Court in Lobatse, a city in the southeast, has ruled that Sadi Nokane pay Obakeng Madubela US$1,000 in damages for violating Madubela’s right to privacy. Around 55 percent of the population…
Black’s Photography sued over pot pics
A southern Ontario woman suing Black’s Photography over pictures of her marijuana plants will have to produce the photos in court. Agnieska Wojtanowska says Black’s violated her Charter rights back in 2001 when a worker handed the photos over to police. Drug charges were later dropped when the pictures were excluded as evidence because they…
Suicide linked to TJX probe
Jonathan James, a/k/a “c0mrade,” achieved fame as a teenager for hacking into NASA and the Pentagon and notoriety for becoming the first juvenile incarcerated for cybercrime in the United States. According to his family, James committed suicide in May 2008 at age 24, just weeks after Secret Service agents accused him of being part of…