Their press release, below. I wonder how the other ISPs served by Rightscorp responded to the subpoenas. Did they fight or just turn over their customers’ information? Birch Communications (“Birch”) a leading nationwide provider of communications, network and cloud services to small, mid-sized, enterprise and wholesale businesses, announced today a favorable ruling by the U.S….
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Extortion Website Operator Casey Meyering Pleads No Contest
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced today that cyber exploitation website operator, Casey E. Meyering, has pled no contest to one count of extortion, three counts of attempted extortion, and one count of conspiracy. He is expected to be sentenced on June 8, 2015. Meyering operated WinByState.com, a cyber exploitation website on which intimate images…
Privacy Group Backs Nick.com Users Against Google And Viacom
Wendy Davis reports: Advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center is asking an appellate court to revive a lawsuit accusing Google and Viacom of violating a federal video privacy law. The dispute centers on allegations that Viacom allowed Google to set tracking cookies on the kids’ site Nick.com. Read more on Media Post.
Canada poised to pass anti-terror legislation despite widespread outrage
John Barber reports: Widespread protest and souring public opinion has failed to prevent Canada’s ruling Conservative Party from pushing forward with sweeping anti-terror legislation which a battery of legal scholars, civil liberties groups, opposition politicians and pundits of every persuasion say will replace the country’s healthy democracy with a creeping police state. Read more on The Guardian.