Nate Anderson writes: A few weeks ago, a man headed home from work and found that his wife had already opened a letter from their ISP, Comcast. The letter said that the man’s IP address had been fingered by Mick Haig Productions, a German film producer suing 670 people in a Dallas federal court. […]…
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Art ‘dating site’ steals 1m Facebook profiles: Is the site a comment on privacy, or a breach of privacy – or both?
Yesterday, Ryan Singel reported on a site that had scraped publicly available Facebook profiles to create a “dating site,” Lovely-Faces.com. Bets were quickly placed as to how long it would be before Facebook’s lawyers got in touch with the site’s creators. But the site is not really a dating site, according to its creators. According…
In Europe, a Right to Be Forgotten Trumps the Memory of the Internet
I recently blogged about the “right to be forgotten” and got some thought-provoking comments from commenters. Today, I see a new article on the topic in The Atlantic. Here are some snippets: … This developing right, authorities in several European countries suggest, would allow an individual to control and sometimes eliminate his or her data trail…
Ranking People Search Websites: How rank are they?
I’ve been on a bit of tear recently about aggregators and data brokers after discovering that profiles I had deleted from Spokeo.com had seemingly reappeared. I am still in communications with Spokeo.com, which is why I haven’t published any update on my complaint yet, but hope to be able to blog more about it in…