Hurray for the timestamp.
Late Wednesday, Sen. Wendy Rogers, who sponsored a bill earlier this year in an attempt to block minors from watching online pornography, re-tweeted a video that contained x-rated images of Hunter Biden, to her more than 300,000 followers on Twitter. The social media platform allows adolescents from as young as 13 years old to sign up without age restrictions and allows adult content to be posted.
Yes, the laptop was abandoned, which makes it the personal property of the computer store owner after the designated period of time. So Biden attorneys are now arguing this:
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Even if it actually was H Biden who dropped off the (alleged) laptop, the only thing the computer shop owner might be entitled to was the hardware, not the data that was stored upon it.Yes, the laptop was abandoned, which makes it the personal property of the computer store owner after the designated period of time. So Biden attorneys are now arguing this:
"Mac Isaac intended and knew, or clearly should have known, that people to whom he provided the data that he believed to belong to Mr Biden would use it against then-candidate Joseph Biden and to assist then-President Trump," the filing reads.
It adds that disseminating private data in this manner "is offensive and objectionable to Mr Biden, and would be highly offensive and objectionable to any reasonable person". Offensive data isn't defamation if it is true.
Hunter Biden sues repairman over release of personal data from laptop
The US president's embattled son is under renewed scrutiny from Republicans in Congress.
Owning the laptop does not give him license to the data contained on it. If I drop my cell phone and you find it you don't get to access my bank records even though they are on the device.Yes, the laptop was abandoned, which makes it the personal property of the computer store owner after the designated period of time. So Biden attorneys are now arguing this:
"Mac Isaac intended and knew, or clearly should have known, that people to whom he provided the data that he believed to belong to Mr Biden would use it against then-candidate Joseph Biden and to assist then-President Trump," the filing reads.
It adds that disseminating private data in this manner "is offensive and objectionable to Mr Biden, and would be highly offensive and objectionable to any reasonable person". Offensive data isn't defamation if it is true.
Hunter Biden sues repairman over release of personal data from laptop
The US president's embattled son is under renewed scrutiny from Republicans in Congress.
Not so. If property is abandoned, it's yours. Here, Biden signed a repair authorization form that deems equipment abandoned if it remains at the shop for more than 90 days after service is complete.
You still own that phone and it is lost. You will make every effort to retrieve it, unlike what Hunter Biden did.
That is incorrect. The suit has nothing to do with ownership of the laptop but deals with the release of data.
The hardware is owned not the software or the data.
No, it is not legal to use the data. You do not suddenly gain legal rights to my likeness simply because it is data on a device. If you make money off a picture on my phone I have a legal right to sue you for misusing data that belongs to me.
It is legal to use them in a personal capacity. It is not legal to sell them or otherwise profit from them - intellectual property laws still apply. If I was writing a novel and left a copy on a computer that I sold to you, I would have ample grounds to sue you if you tried to publish it under your name - you didn't write it, and I didn't sell you the novel. I sold you the computer (the hardware). I couldn't really do anything to get the copy of the novel back from you, but all you would be able to do with it legally is read it.
A moral person wouldn't, perhaps, but, considering that this entire situation hinges on someone who did not wipe the device in question and instead sold the contents, it seems a bit silly to claim that "no one" would do it.
And even looking at the information is legally questionable; technically the are only allowed to look at things as required for repairs or, if you don't pick up your machine, (if they believe they have incorrect contact info) to look for correct contact information.
