Matt Cooper reports: A judge improperly tried to rip the cloak of anonymity from a blogger who lambasted a software maker online, the Texas Supreme Court ruled. The dispute stems from an online attack that a blogger calling himself “the Trooper” launched against Reynolds & Reynolds Co., a developer of automotive-dealership software. Read more on…
Category: Online
Safari Users Fight To Revive Hacking Lawsuit Against Google, Vibrant Media, WPP
Wendy Davis reports: Google, Vibrant Media and WPP’s Media Innovation Group went beyond “routine commercial behavior” when they allegedly circumvented Safari users’ privacy controls in order to set tracking cookies, a group of consumers says in new court papers. “Rather than being consensual, these cookies were designed by the defendants to hack their way around…
Court Orders Twitter to Reveal Data on Handle’s ID
John Caher reports: A man falsely charged with posting an in-court photograph of a 12-year-old sexual assault victim is entitled to information that could identify the culprit who apparently assumed his identity and shared the picture on Twitter, a Brooklyn judge has held. Read more on New York Law Journal (subscription required).
Horizon: The defenders of anonymity on the internet
Mike Radford reports: Last year, the revelations of US security contractor Edward Snowden, suggested for the first time the extent to which governments were collecting and analysing our communications over the internet. But what Horizon reveals is that scientists are growing increasingly concerned about the way such information could be used to predict our behaviour…