Raising the prospect of a major privacy issue for a leading medical center, authorities say a gynecologist and obstetrician believed to have committed suicide earlier this month after being fired…
Maine’s top court has upheld the dismissal of 46 charges against a businessman accused of taping a prostitute’s sexual encounters, holding that the johns have no reasonable expectation of privacy…
Terri Wright says a Florida newspaper reporter misunderstood her when he said in an article that she conducted Internet research while serving as the forewoman of a jury hearing a…
First comes the request for explicit photos from a trusted boyfriend. Then, after the relationship goes bad, the public posting of the pictures on so-called “revenge porn” sites, often accompanied…
Depending on your perspective, a Facebook fail that reportedly interrupted service to thousands, perhaps even millions, of third-party websites for less than an hour on Thursday was either a minor…
A federal judge has agreed to unseal records in a civil suit over a herpes infection, a victory for a suspended Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice who wants to use the…
A Maine judge has dismissed 46 of 59 counts against a defendant accused of taping sexual encounters at a Zumba studio after his lawyer argued that privacy rights don’t apply…
Volunteers participating in the 1000 Genomes Project signed a consent form saying the researchers could not guarantee their privacy. At the time, the risk appeared remote, according to the director…
Updated: A federal judge in Florida has reconsidered an ex parte order issued on Friday, telling marshals to seize the home computers of a juror who was quoted in a…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1997 that the federal government cannot force state officials to participate in the background check system for gun ownership, leading…