Anonymous bloggers in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, consider yourselves warned. A UK court has revealed the identity of a police officer who anonymously wrote an award-winning blog that shared certain details of cases on which he’d worked. The judge ruled that Richard Horton had no “reasonable expectation” to anonymity because “blogging is essentially a public rather than a private activity.”
Notable Quote
“There’s Owen Van Natta, he signs like a lady. Signs like my mother. Must have gone to Catholic school. Sorry Owen, but you sign like a lady.” — AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher on the former Facebook exec’s signature on a company poster
Notable News
AT&T pumps up its FiOS competitor with speed boosts and various other tweaks (AT&T)
Cell carriers to go before Senate Subcommittee over high texting charges (MyNewsJunkie)
Verizon to launch local news station for NYC FiOS customers (Long Island Business News)
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