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…
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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…
Anti-piracy law test case sent to EU Court
The first case tried since the passage of Sweden’s anti-file sharing law (Ipred) in April 2009 is heading for the EU Court of Justice after a ruling by the Supreme Court. This issue concerns a case between five audiobook publishers and the Swedish ISP ePhone which appealed a lower court ruling ordering the firm to hand…