Tag: Stored Communications Act

A juror who posted comments on his Facebook page during a trial must give the trial court judge a copy of all of his posts, including deleted posts. A California appellate court found that the trial court was correct in ordering the juror to produce to the court for review all of his posts to […]

The unauthorized disclosure of personal information via the Internet may be an “injury in fact” sufficient to maintain an action in federal court. A federal judge in California refused to dismiss a case where the plaintiff pled that his personally identifiable information (PII)–including his email address, password and logon credentials–were made available to hackers because […]

Your Facebook and MySpace emails and comments are private and cannot be subpoenaed, a U.S. District Court in California found. The court reasoned that the messages, once read by the recipient, are “stored” for backup purposes under the Stored Communications Act and cannot be divulged except by consent of the recipient. “With respect to webmail […]

A federal lawsuit accuses a Pennsylvania school district of using school-issued laptops to spy on students and their families using an embedded webcam. The lawsuit contends that that Lower Merion School District gave each high school student a laptop to use in school and at home but did not tell the students that the laptop […]