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Claim: ISP Identified Non-Subscriber In Troubled File-Sharing Case

Posted on January 8, 2011July 3, 2025 by Dissent

enigmax writes:

Last year when thousands of Internet users had their privacy breached due to the actions of ACS:Law, watchdog Privacy International said it would pursue the anti-piracy law firm for breaching the Data Protection Act. Now, in PI’s 2010 report, there is a suggestion that BSkyB “contaminated” subscriber information it sent to ACS:Law, which led to someone being accused of piracy who had no broadband account with BSkyB.

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