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Privacy Round-Up: Myspace, Craigslist and issues of privacy

Posted in July 6th, 2009
Published in Privacy News

Myspace lawsuit: It was just over a year ago that we first posted about the Myspace suicide case. Lori Drew, a middle-aged Midwestern mom, allegedly created a fake Myspace account of a teen boy in order to harass 13-year-old Megan Meier, a neighbor girl who took her own life when her online “boyfriend” turned against [...]

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Right cause, wrong law

Posted in June 18th, 2008

Lori Drew, the 49-year-old Missouri resident who allegedly posed as a teenage boy on MySpace in order to harass 13-year-old Megan Meier, pled not guilty on Monday to charges of conspiracy and accessing protected computers without authorization to get information used to inflict emotional distress. The case is before the federal court in California, where [...]

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