Details about a U.S. Secret Service safe house for the First Family — to be used in a national emergency — were found to have leaked on a LimeWire file-sharing network recently, members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee were told this morning. Also unearthed on LimeWire networks in recent days were presidential…
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Pearl district sued over alleged Facebook incident
The family of Mandi Jackson, a Pearl High School student in Mississippi, is reportedly suing the school district for $50 million, alleging that their daughter is being shunned after a cheerleading coach read e-mails on her Facebook account two years ago and shared the emails with others. On Sept. 10, 2007, Hill allegedly asked members…
Dutch spam suspect fined €250K
Dutch telecoms regulators have fined a junk email spammer €250,000. Reinier Schenkhuizen was ordered to pay €250,000 by local regulator OPTA. Of this, €150,000 was for distributing junk emails and €100,000 for failing to create a means for recipients to unsubscribe to unwanted messages, according to local reports. OPTA alleges that Schenkhuizen was a “persistent…
Pirate Bay facing new suit from US film giants
Disney, Universal, Warner Bros and Colombia (sic) Pictures are among more than ten major film companies behind a writ to sue Swedish file-sharing site The Pirate Bay in Stockholm District Court. The film companies demand that the court order The Pirate Bay to cease aiding the production of copies of their films and television shows….