Posted on 11/01/2015 4:56:09 PM PST by Elderberry
The Supreme Court is set to hear a clash between privacy laws that protect American consumers and the desire of online data providers to avoid potentially crippling lawsuits if they post inaccurate information on the Web.
On Monday the justices will take up the case of Thomas Robins, a Virginia man who sued Spokeo, a Pasadena-based tech company that calls itself a "people search engine."
Spokeo sells profiles of people drawn from data available online. When the company produced a profile of Robins, he was surprised to see himself described as married with children, in his 50s, with a graduate degree and a professional job.
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The people will lose. There’s just too much value for the Government not to be able to extort this information from the businesses it decides can do this.
His proper remedy is probably to sue for libel under state law.
From your fabulous federal government...
that spies on your phone calls to catch terrorists...
but can’t stop violations of the -do not call- list...
Bingo. From the high volume of calls I get from telemarketers, I get the distinct feeling that the federal government sold the Do Not Call Registry. I would not put this past them at all since the volume of the calls I receive seemed to go up dramatically once I enrolled on it.
The telemarketers are bad enough, but the political hacks are even worse. Whenever there is an upcoming election, my phone rings non-stop.
Publishing false information about someone is the damage done.
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