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Workplace confidentiality: more about insisting on privacy!

  • Stewart McKelvey
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 8 2013

The common law privacy right, or the tort of intrusion upon seclusion, arrived in Canada with Jones v. Tsige. That case arose when a bank employee

TCPA tyranny stop the madness

  • Lathrop & Gage LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 1 2013

The TCPA is a stupid statute. I'm not sure whether the stupidity is congenital, arose out of a noxious environment after birth, or resulted from a

Actress loses suit against IMDb for age reveal

  • Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 3 2013

In a closely watched case in Washington federal court, a jury found in favor of entertainment Web site IMDb (Internet Movie Database) over an actress

You are not your IP address

  • Fenwick & West LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • August 27 2012

A district court judge ruled recently that an IP address, on its own, is not enough to determine a person's identity, throwing a wrench in the copyright infringement claims brought by pornographic film producers in four related mass BitTorrent lawsuits, which involved more than 80 John Doe defendants accused of illegally downloading different pornographic films

Invasion of privacy proposals to affect media

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia
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  • October 6 2011

The Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC) 2008 report on privacy law, For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice, as well as similar reports released in 2009 and 2010 by the New South Wales and Victorian Law Reform Commissions respectively, have begun to gain traction in the Federal Government, with two new proposals being raised regarding invasion of privacy

Court absolves Google of responsibility for misleading sponsored links

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Australia
  • -
  • May 7 2013

On February 6 2013, in Google Inc v Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the High Court upheld the appeal of Google Inc against the

Court of Protection names guilty council

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 13 2011

The Court of Protection has lifted its usual anonymity rule and named a local council it rebuked for breaching the Article 5 and 8 rights of a 19-year-old man with serious learning difficulties and severe physical disabilities

Customers can resell copies of downloaded software; developers can try to stop them

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • European Union
  • -
  • July 4 2012

Yesterday, 3 July 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in UsedSoft v. Oracle that online purchasers of software may resell copies of their downloads provided that they render the original download usable

No invasion of privacy when employer fires EMT for posting derogatory comments about patient on a fellow employee’s Facebook page

  • Sherman & Howard LLC
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  • USA
  • -
  • November 5 2012

When an employee posts derogatory comments about her employer or its patients on a fellow worker's Facebook page, the employee has no reasonable expectation of privacy and cannot complain of an invasion of privacy when she is fired because of the post and her defiant response to counseling about the post

When can you sue under a disguised name?

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 3 2012

In what circumstances can a claimant in civil litigation commence proceedings under a pseudonym?

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