Jeremy Malcolm and Mitch Stoltz write: TG Storytime is a free community website for transgender authors, operated by Joe Six-Pack, himself a transgender author and publisher. If you look up the registration details of Joe’s domain tgstorytime.com using the WHOIS application, you get this result: Registrant Name: Registration Private Registrant Organization: Domains By Proxy, LLC…
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Lawsuit Claims Verizon Conspired to Insert ‘Supercookie’ to Track Mobile Web
Chriss W. Street reports: Marketing company Turn Inc. of Redwood City has been sued in what looks to be a huge mass tort lawsuit alleging a conspiracy with telecommunications giant Verizon Wireless to engage in undisclosed tracking and storing of Internet browsing histories. According to a complaint filed Friday in the Los Angeles Superior Court by plaintiffs’…
Google eavesdropping tool installed on computers without permission
Samuel Gibbs reports: Privacy campaigners and open source developers are up in arms over the secret installing of Google software which is capable of listening in on conversations held in front of a computer. First spotted by open source developers, the Chromium browser – the open source basis for Google’s Chrome – began remotely installing audio-snooping code that…
Yandex Posts Longest Slump Since March on Internet Privacy Bill
Aleksandra Gjorgievska reports: Yandex NV fell for a sixth day in New York,the longest losing streak since March, as the Russian parliament considers an Internet privacy bill that could impose regulatory costs on the country’s biggest search engine. The shares sank 3 percent to $16.26 on Monday, the lowest close since April 2. The stock…