Researchers from Microsoft and Germany’s Max Planck Institute reported in a recent paper that there are Facebook advertisements targeted to users based on sexuality, regardless of the user’s display preferences—and…
A federal magistrate judge found an Oregon disability claims lawyer guilty of disorderly conduct and sentenced him to a year of probation and an anger management course after a three-year…
Overturning a lower court order requiring a Muslim woman to remove her niqab before testifying against two male relatives at a sexual assault trial, the Ontario Court of Appeal has…
An amended lawsuit claims Facebook disclosed users’ personal information to advertisers when it began embedding additional data in website addresses in February.
The suit by two Facebook users claims advertisers…
Supreme Court justices appeared ready to reject a claim by contract scientists working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory that a government background questionnaire violated their First Amendment right to informational…
Hulk Hogan has settled a lawsuit claiming Post Foods misappropriated his likeness in an advertisement for Cocoa Pebbles featuring a character called “Hulk Boulder.”
Updated: Two classmates are accused of secretly live-streaming a New Jersey college student’s gay sexual encounter days before he committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge into the…
By placing her physical condition at issue in a tort claim over a fall from an office chair at work, a woman effectively waived any expectation of privacy in her…
A prominent California personal injury lawyer has been criminally charged for allegedly impersonating a female neighbor on the Internet and setting up pages encouraging strangers seeking sexual encounters to contact…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether corporations are shielded from disclosures under an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act that protects “personal privacy.”
Privacy and Internet advocates are raising concerns about new crime-fighting proposals by the Obama administration designed to make it easier to wiretap electronic communications and review banking transfers, no matter…
Hackers have obtained e-mails from a U.K. law firm that sues people suspected of illegal file-sharing, according to reports on legal technology blogs. The messages have been posted on the…
A woman who had been named 2010 teacher of the year at Pillow Elementary School in Austin, Texas, has reportedly resigned under fire after administrators found out she had posted…
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