Privacy advocates claim that Verizon is “silently modifying its users’ web traffic on its network to inject a cookie-like tracker… sent to every unencrypted website a Verizon customer visits from a mobile device.” According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Verizon’s “tracker, included in an HTTP header called X-UIDH” and
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Facebook Sues Lawyers for Deceit and Malicious Prosecution for Representing Ceglia
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DLA Piper and a group of law firms are accused of conspiring “to file and prosecute a fraudulent lawsuit” on behalf of Paul Ceglia who fabricated evidence that he owned 84% of Mark Zuckerberg’s stock in Facebook. On October 20, 2014 Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg sued the group of lawyers…
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$10 Million Fines for Privacy Violations
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it was issuing fines since “TerraCom and YourTel apparently stored Social Security numbers, names, addresses, driver’s licenses, and other sensitive information belonging to their customers on unprotected Internet servers that anyone in the world could access.” However, the FCC stated in “their privacy…
FTC Shuts Down Company that Made $2.5 Million Masquerading as Facebook & Microsoft
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A court granted the FTC’s motion to “shut down a company that scammed computer users by tricking them into paying hundreds of dollars for technical support services they did not need, as well as software that was otherwise available for free.” In the case of FTC v. Pairsys, Inc. et…
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LinkedIn Allegedly Violates Federal Law by Making Employment History Available
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A new class action lawsuit alleges that on LinkedIn “any potential employer can anonymously dig into the employment history of any LinkedIn member, and make hiring and firing decisions based upon the information they gather, without the knowledge of the member, and without any safeguards in place as to the…
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$600,000 Fine for Blocking WiFi Hotspots in Hotel
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fined a hotel after “some of its employees in a Nashville hotel illegally blocked private WiFi signals and customer hotspots so that guests and conference attendees would have to pay to use the hotel’s WiFi services.” On October 6, 2014 the FCC reported that the…
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40 Count Indictment Against Cybercriminal for Stealing Credit Cards and Offering Online Tutorials
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A Russian cybercriminal allegedly “was a leader in the marketplace for stolen credit card numbers, and even created a website offering a tutorial on how to use stolen credit card numbers to commit crime.” According to an October 9, 2014 Department of Justice (DOJ) Press Release that Roman Valerevich Seleznev…
What a Surprise! US Supreme Court Relies on Unsubstantiated Internet Facts
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We all know that “everything on the Internet is true” or at least as presented in Amicus (friend-of-the-court) briefs to the US Supreme Justices who have to figure “out how to distinguish between real facts and Internet facts.” On August 27, 2014 Professor Allison Orr Larsen (College of William and…
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$100+ Million Lawsuit Threat to Google Over Celebrity Pictures
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A demand letter reminded Google of its corporate motto “Don’t be evil,” alleged that Google is making “millions and profiting from the victimization of women,” and that “it is time that Google owns up to its conduct and remedies this gross violation of law, ethics, moral and basic privacy rights.” …
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Privacy Policy Challenge: Google Ordered to Cease Data Profiling in Germany
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A recent administrative order was issued for Google to “to take the necessary technical and organisational measures to guarantee that their users can decide on their own if and to what extend their data is used for profiling.” Last week the Hamburg Commissioner of Data Protection and Freedom of Information…
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