After three years of allowing comments on its news stories, Wisconsin’s Janesville Gazette is taking a step back and shutting down commenting on stories about crime, courts,…
A British man convicted of sending a menacing communication for a Twitter rant lost a bid to overturn his conviction last week, but gained supporters who posted Twitter threats to…
In the wake of good news for Google Inc. concerning a now-concluded Federal Trade Commission probe of the company’s data collection practices for its global Street View mapping project comes…
A Michigan prosecutor who attacked a student leader in a blog, calling him a “radical homosexual” and worse, and sought to get him fired from his job, has now himself…
A recent Utah case involving some misinterpreted baby photos serves as a cautionary tale for parents who are tempted to snap pictures of their nude infants.
The case of two college students who used a computer to spy on a gay student’s romantic encounter could be the first legal test of New Jersey’s 2003 invasion of…
The price of surveillance equipment is falling, tempting people who are plagued by neighbors’ bad acts to buy a camera and play spy to catch the wrongdoers.
As the Bill Murray character experienced in the movie Groundhog Day, those who can’t seem to get it right may have to relive the same day again and again until…
The National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint against a company that fired a union worker who made negative comments about her supervisor on Facebook.
When the feds search an individual’s e-mail under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, they don’t have to notify the account-holder, a federal judge has ruled.
Google Inc. has turned the tables on the feds, alleging that the U.S. Department of the Interior has illegally restricted competition among potential bidders for an e-mail contract by requiring…
The emergence of Righthaven, a copyright troll that buys the rights to Las Vegas Review-Journal stories and then sues alleged infringers, has prompted a couple of blogs to…
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