AP reports: A Puerto Rico man accused of creating 300 Twitter accounts to harass people online has been arrested in the first case of its kind for the U.S. territory, authorities said Tuesday. The island’s Justice Department said 27-year-old Omar Falcon Torres is suspected of operating under the name “MedeaBot” for two years. He faces…
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Social-Media Sites Face Pressure to Monitor Terrorist Content
Deepa Seetharaman, Alistair Barr and Yoree Koh report: Facebook Inc. typically counts on its 1.5 billion users to report offensive content, but last week, the social network went looking for it. On Thursday, Facebook removed a profile page used by one of two people suspected of killing 14 people the previous day in San Bernardino, Calif. […] The…
Hong Kong’s appeal decision on the removal of personal data in the public domain
There’s a follow-up to a decision previously noted on this blog. Charles Mo and Joanne Mok of Winston & Strawn LLP write: The Hong Kong Administrative Appeals Board (“ABB”), an independent statutory body that reviews appeals against administrative decisions, recently released its decision concerning the controversial issue of whether individuals in Hong Kong have a…
Florida man pleads guilty to cyberstalking, hacking, and identity theft
Michael Daniel Rubens, 31, formerly of Tallahassee, pled guilty yesterday to cyberstalking, unauthorized access to a protected computer, and aggravated identity theft. During his guilty plea, Rubens admitted that, between January 2012 and January 2015, he publicly humiliated dozens of young women by hacking into their online accounts, including e-mail and social media, stealing photographs…