Matthew Mazzotta has an article in the Boston College Law Review (Vol. 51, No. 3, p. 833, 2010) , “Balancing Act: Finding Consensus on Standards for Unmasking Anonymous Internet Speakers.” Here’s the abstract: The growth in popular use of the internet has led to a dramatic increase in both the amount of anonymous speech and…
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Seizure of Voicenet servers in child porn case upheld
From FourthAmendment.com: Local officials found out that the plaintiff ISP company was allegedly tolerating child pornography exchanges through its servers and it did not monitor any usage. They obtained a search warrant for the servers for the child porn and seized the computers. The ISP filed a civil rights action against the officials which they…
Lawsuit Targets Mobile Ad Company Over Sneaky HTML5 Uncookies
David Kravets writes: A New York-based mobile-web advertising company was hit Wednesday with a proposed class action over its use of an HTML5 trick to track iPhone and iPad users across a number of websites, in what is believed to be the first privacy lawsuit of its kind in the mobile space. The company, Ringleader Digital,…
John Doe Strikes Back: New Developments in the US Copyright Group (“Hurt Locker”) Cases
Corynne McSherry comments: After months of dragnet litigation and intimidation, some of the thousands of “John Doe” Defendants targeted in mass copyright lawsuits filed in the District of Columbia are fighting back in earnest. The lawsuits are the brainchild of a Washington, D.C., law firm calling itself the “U.S. Copyright Group” (USCG). USCG investigators have…