Friday, March 30, 2012

Privacy laws evolving in new era of technology

In a scenario limited to science fiction or spy novels 20 years ago, Clementi was spied on by his roommate, Dharun Ravi, who used a concealed webcam inside their dorm room to watch Clementi kissing another man. For creating a fake MySpace suitor who pushed her teenage daughter's former friend to commit suicide in 2006, Lori Drew was convicted only of violating MySpace's terms of service. More seriously, prosecutors argued that Ravi's actions should be considered "bias intimidation," or a hate crime, motivated by his roommate's sexuality. Comments from jurors indicate that they took to heart the power of the Internet and social media and its effect on privacy as we know it today, as well as the troubling evidence laid out in Tweets, texts, Facebook posts and email. [...] jurors indicated that they homed in on key evidence, particularly Ravi's Twitter post inviting his online friends to tune into a subsequent webcast that never happened, and Clementi's behavior in which he viewed his roommate's Twitter account 38 times in the two days before he killed himself.

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