Sex Offender Sues MySpace Over Privacy
A convicted Georgia sex offender is spearheading an effort to prevent media companies like Yahoo, Myspace and Comcast from honoring search warrants from out-of-state law enforcement, claiming in a Manhattan federal lawsuit that they violate the companies’ privacy policies and federal wiretapping laws.
Cory Hubbard, 34, who was convicted in 2008 of using Myspace to lure a 13-year-old girl to a motel, claims that the California-based social networking site violated federal Internet privacy and wiretapping laws by responding to a warrant signed by a county magistrate in Georgia, according to the suit.
Hubbard’s
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