David Fisher reports: Kim Dotcom’s internet connection was being diverted inside New Zealand weeks before the Government Communications Security Bureau says it started spying on him. The Herald has obtained details showing Telecom engineers and staff at its technology services company Gen-I were investigating irregularities with his internet connection in November. The revelation has raised suspicion that…
Category: U.S.
Hacker Case Could Test Limits on Electronic Searches
Vanessa Blum reports on U.S. v. Collins, a case involving Anonymous’s attacks on PayPal in retaliation for not permitting donations to WikiLeaks. One of the interesting – and important – issues that has arisen is the extent to which prosecutors really need to purge and/or return material and files on seized computers that are not…
No harm, no foul? Facebook seeks dismissal of $15B tracking lawsuit
Joel Rosenblatt reports: Facebook Inc. (FB) said a $15 billion lawsuit accusing the company of secretly tracking the Internet activity of its users after they log off should be dismissed because the subscribers didn’t specify how they were harmed. The complaint suffers from an “utter lack of allegations of any injury to these particular named…
OWS lawyer asks court to overturn Twitter order
Adam Klasfield reports that Malcolm Harris’s attorney has filed a writ of mandamus, seeking to have the court overturn a ruling that required Twitter to turn over his tweets to the District Attorney. Read more about this latest development on Courthouse News.