Friday, March 02, 2007

'Embarrassed' Gun Suspect Sues Microsoft After FBI Finds Sex Videos On His PC

Paul McDougall writes on InformationWeek:

A man awaiting trial for alleged gun crimes is suing Microsoft for privacy violations after FBI agents seized his home computer during a raid and found files containing sexually explicit videos of him and his girlfriend and evidence that he frequented pornographic Web sites.

Michael Alan Crooker, currently in jail in Connecticut, says security features advertised by Microsoft and its business partners should have kept federal agents from accessing the files on his PC. In court papers filed this week in Massachusetts Superior Court, Crooker says he "suffered great embarrassment" as a result of Microsoft's failure to keep the FBI's prying eyes off his computer.

He is suing the software maker for $200,000 in compensatory and punitive damages.

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