Two graduates of Yale Law School have settled their defamation lawsuit against several online critics who wrote nasty comments about them on the law school discussion board AutoAdmit.
A federal judge in Chicago has tossed a sheriff’s lawsuit against Craigslist that claimed ads for prostitution posted on the website created a public nuisance.
Saying that statements made on social networking sites are admissible as evidence of a defendant’s character, the Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the conviction of a Northern Indiana man…
The detention of a Missouri high school student accused of creating a website to bully another student, is the latest in an aggressive crackdown on cyberbullying.
California signed into a law this week legislation that will make it easier for officials to protect witnesses from gangs able to access witness information on the Web.
A fugitive sought on bank fraud charges in Seattle was apparently partying and living it up in Cancun, until he made an online mistake: He friended a former Justice Department…
When Shannon Jackson was told she couldn’t contact another woman in Tennessee, she apparently may not have realized that the court order included a virtual “poke” on Facebook.
A federal magistrate judge in New York says a blogging lawyer sometimes “veered into hyperbole and gratuitous attacks on the recording industry” but he doesn’t deserve to be sanctioned for…
Although it appears that no sensitive consumer data may have been stolen, Wal-Mart was among the major companies attacked by computer hackers in 2005 and 2006.
A few defamation suits are being filed and threatened over short 140-character rants posted to Twitter, spurring one First Amendment expert to suggest a defense: Tweets shouldn’t be taken so…
As cybercrime has exploded in recent years and even traditional crimes ranging from harassment to murder routinely involve Internet-related communication, authorities in many jurisdictions increasingly are struggling to keep up…
Authorities have announced charges against 100 individuals in the United States and Egypt in what they say is the largest such case ever pursued in the U.S.
When bloggers posted about a seemingly way-too-thin photo of a model featured in a recent Ralph Lauren advertisement, the company and its lawyers reportedly responded with a takedown demand, as…
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