Results tagged “privacy”

A source at the real estate agency that leased Jude Law an apartment in the heart of NYU's campus has no sympathy for the "Hamlet "star. The actor — who has been so terrorized by his collegiate fans that he was forced to throw oranges at them — was aware that he would be moving next to an NYU dormitory, an insider at Brown Harris Stevens told the Post. "Obviously, Jude rented this apartment knowing where it was," the source said. That makes some sense, considering that the Hayden Hall dorm, like almost every building near Washington Square Park, is decked out with large purple and white flags.

It's hard to feel bad for Jude Law when we all lack privacy in the city — in much less swank digs. Turns out the actor moved in right next to the NYU freshman dorm Hayden Hall, and the student body is enjoying their new view. The dubious dorm dwellers have now leaked their secret to the NY Post (with paparazzi style photos), saying whenever they spot Law on his Washington Square balcony (sometimes with his son), there's complete chaos.

Last month a judge ordered Google to reveal the e-mail and IP address of the person behind the Skanks in NYC blog, a Blogger site (owned by Google) dedicated to trashing former model Liskula Cohen. Now, besides the blogger's lawsuit against Google for unmasking her, the company has to defend itself against yet another skank-inspired court filing. Holiday Image, a Queens company that creates Christmas displays, is suing Google to identify an impostor who sent a defamatory e-mail to its biggest client, the Gap. The lawsuit says someone opened a Gmail account under the name of Holiday Image's CEO, Matthew Schwam, and e-mailed Gap, badmouthing the retailer's employees as "airhead California people" who are "in they're [sic] own little world." The e-mail also said Holiday Image cheated Gap out of $100,000, and was being investigated by the IRS. It's unclear why an individual pretending to be Schwam would conclude the e-mail by writing, "There are other moral and un-criminal vendors out there. Explore your options!" But Holiday Image wants a preliminary injunction preventing Google from deleting any records related to the Gmail account, so that it can sue the e-mailer for defamation.

The NYCLU has filed a new lawsuit against the NYPD. This time around, the NYCLU wants information about the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, which involves hundreds (up to thousands) of cameras filming activity downtown.