March 23, 2010 – 12:45 pm
The Second Circuit of the Court of Appeals in the US has handed down a decision concluding that it’s permissible for a judge to use Google to confirm a hunch in some circumstances (United States v Bari). The defendant was one Anthony Bari who was released on terms from prison after committing a bank robbery. [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Law, Media
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Tagged civilian law, common law, criminal law, evidence, evidence law, Google, Internet, judges, Technology, use of evidence
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“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” (Evelyn Beatrice Hall, biographer of Voltaire) Disapproving of what someone says but defending their right to say it is sometimes very hard. It sounds fine in principle…until you see something that is really challenging to your ideas [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Australian internet filter, Free Speech, Law, Media, Privacy, Society
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Tagged aborigines, Australian Human Rights Commission, censorship, electronic frontiers australia, Encyclopaedia Dramatica, Free Speech, indigenous issues, ISP filtering, Joseph Evers, Racism, steve hodder-watt, streisand effect
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The Israeli military cancelled a planned raid on a Palestinian village after one of its soldiers posted details of the operation on Facebook. The unnamed soldier revealed the time and place of the raid and the name of his unit on the social networking site. He said on his status update that his unit planned [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Fark!, Free Speech, Funnies, Law, Middle east, Politics, Religion
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Tagged binyamin netanyahu, Facebook, IDF, Israel, Israeli Defence Force, pope benedict, West Bank
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Believe it or not, it’s now possible to commit contempt of court by soliciting your supporters to send hundreds of e-mails to the judge. The case arose when a salesman, Kevin Trudeau, who apparently sells weight loss cures via infomercials on US TV was taken to court by the US Federal Trade Commission for deceptive [...]
February 4, 2010 – 2:18 am
An Australian banker is in hot water after being filmed looking at semi-nude photos of a model while a colleague was doing a television interview nearby. He could be seen clicking on photos of Miranda Kerr in the background of the Channel 7 interview on Tuesday with an analyst for Macquarie Private Wealth. The footage [...]
December 15, 2009 – 8:40 pm
Here at Skepticlawyer we’re shocked to see that the wowsers have apparently won the battle over compulsory internet censorship. The Age reports: The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Blogging, Free Speech, Human/Civil rights, Law, Media, Personal liberty, Politics, Public Policy, Society
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Tagged freedom of speech, ISP filtering, Senator Conroy
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August 24, 2009 – 11:32 am
I am generally a pretty gentle person. The other day, my daughter found a spider in the corridor, and I guided it into a glass and tipped it out on the veranda. I have difficulty hurting things. However, everyone has something which pushes their buttons. For me, it’s bullying. A British teenager has become the [...]
August 20, 2009 – 9:09 pm
I seem to be building up rather a niche in posts on blogging, social networking, defamation and privacy law. Cases are springing up like mushrooms. I’ve written before about the outing of “NightJack”, a policeman whose blog became immensely popular. It seemed to me that the development of outing pseudonymous bloggers was a rather sad [...]
August 18, 2009 – 3:43 pm
Deckard: Replicants are like any other machine. They’re either a benefit or a hazard. If they’re a benefit, it’s not my problem. Bladerunner, 1982 Very much the same thing could be said about social networking technology as about replicants. The technology can have both positive and negative ramifications. A few times over the last week, [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Free Speech, Law, Media, Personal liberty, Popular culture, Public Policy, Society
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Tagged Facebook, invasion of privacy, job interview, Privacy, social networking
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I can’t believe there is a case called The Author of A Blog v Times Newspapers Limited [2009] EWHC 1358 (QB). But there is. “The Author of A Blog” cited as the claimant was the pseudonymous author of a blog known as “Night Jack”. He was a police officer whose blog provided an inside view [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Blogging, England, Law, Media, Privacy, Society, Technology
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Tagged anonymous blogging, invasion of privacy, NightJack, Privacy, Richard Horton
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