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Man Jailed for Gmail Invite to Ex-Girlfriend
- ColinWright 13y agoI'd be interested to see how this pans out, but, as with all these stories, I have no doubt that it will disappear, never to be seen again. Are there facilities for monitoring remotely the progress of cases like this?
- nmc 13y agoLike a social network for lawyers to post updates of their cases? When will lawyers start tweeting from the courtroom?
- Ygg2 13y agoOr just a site that you enter court case number and track it? No need for the drama.
- nmc 13y agoWho would keep such a site up to date? How would the validity of the information be checked?
- philosophus 13y agoThe courts, that's their job. If you can find out what court it's in and the case number, you can request the documents, they're public records.
- kuschku 13y agoThere is a german lawyer blogging about his experiences on lawblog.de, but aside from him I never saw any lawyer/judge/etc. on the internet talking about their job.
- ColinWright 13y agoIn the UK: https://twitter.com/JackofKent https://twitter.com/JackofKent
- hkmurakami 13y agoThat's because they'll settle out of court.
- rplnt 13y agoSettle? Ignoring the absurdness of this, how would you settle this? I mean, who would settle with who? He (supposedly) broke restraining order.
- jrockway 13y ago"I'll do one hour of community service." "Plea accepted."
- hkmurakami 13y agoSorry, I implied that the man will sue Google, and they will settle out of court.
- epochwolf 13y agoNot an option. This is a criminal charge, not a lawsuit.
- reader5000 13y agoWell, those are still usually settled.
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- dty 13y agoPrevious submission and front page discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7029596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7029596
- DanielStraight 13y agoA few notes: 1. Stories like this are in the news because they're extraordinary. Stuff that happens every day isn't in the news, because... it's not news. There are 300 million people in the U.S. Occasionally weird things like this are inevitable. 2. These stories almost always have simple explanations: In this case, a restraining order. If you aren't supposed to contact someone, you aren't supposed to contact them. Your problem if you don't know how keep your email provider from emailing them, not the court's problem. Do you think a judge would accept "I don't know another route" as an explanation if he kept driving by her house? 3. There is nothing to discuss or learn from this kind of story. Something happened that seems odd at first glance and is tangentially related to tech. That's all this is. This isn't a new policy of jailing people for sending invites. It isn't indicative of a new trend. It's just something that happened and seems odd. As far as I can tell, it's exactly the correct response to a restraining order violation.
- JimmaDaRustla 13y agoThe story here is that the e-mail was sent without any action on his part - much different than driving by her house. Google shouldn't be sending out invitations without an action from the user.
- DanielStraight 13y agoThat's one side of the story. We have no way of knowing if it's true. It's not especially hard to accidentally click an invite link and not realize or remember you did it.
- JimmaDaRustla 13y agoAbsolutely. (11 days late)
- yardie 13y agoI signed on to Google+ right after it was made available and this is one of the reasons I don't use it now. It was proposing people I hadn't spoken to or had no real relationship with (that guy I bought the couch from on Craigslist in 2004). And sending them emails. A similar offender is LinkedIn, but I tolerate them because you never know when someone will reach out with a job offer.
- hamburglar 13y agoAgreed. I've had Google plus "invite" people on my behalf without warning and I find it pretty creepy and annoying. I am not under the misapprehension that I have any legal cause against Google for this, but it definitely makes me completely uninterested in actually using Google plus. I initially thought it mightmake a good facebook replacement but they have completely screwed up enough aspects of it that I just can't imagine it ever succeeding.