How “porno-troll” Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos
A company called Strike 3, owner of Vixen and Tushy, has clogged US courts with lawsuits, mostly against porn watchers who feel shamed into settling privately Bluesky: @davelee.me . Forums: r/Piracy a...
A look at the UK's planned Digital Markets Unit, which will regulate US tech companies under the DMCC, passed in May 2024, and have the power to halt any M&A
and What Trump Must Do About It James Morales / CCN.com : UK Competition Watchdog Vows no ‘Blanket Rules’ for Big Tech Regulation X: Casey Handmer, PhD / @cjhandmer : Hard to believe that any serious ...
Over the past year, one researcher has reported dozens of flaws in 19 commercial services used by hundreds of US courts, state agencies, and police departments
With hundreds of courts and agencies affected, chances are one near you is, too. — Public records systems that courts …
A US appeals court blocks the FCC's reinstatement of net neutrality rules, saying broadband providers are likely to succeed in a legal challenge
again Ananya Gairola / Benzinga : US Appeals Court Halts President Biden's Net Neutrality Rules: ‘The Commission Has Failed To Satisfy The High Bar For Imposing Such Regulations’ Iain Thomson / The Re...
3AC co-founder Kyle Davies tells a US court he is not subjecting himself to or accepting the jurisdiction of US courts since he renounced citizenship in 2020
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Documents show some US courts are using Covenant Eyes, an anti-porn app sold to churches to monitor all online activity, to surveil parolees and their families
Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired : Mastodon: @couts@mastodon.social . Tweets: @petersterne , @ma_franks , and @nicolerprause Mastodon: Andrew Couts / @couts@mastodon.social : NEW: An anti-porn “accountability”...
A US federal judge rules in favor of four publishers in their copyright infringement case against the Internet Archive and its Controlled Digital Lending system
Today's lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow … Paul Hill / Neowin : Court rules against Internet Archive in favour of book publishers on digital lending United States Distric...
Some US courts are turning to Zoom for trials during the lockdown, which critics say limits public access to the courts and favors high-end law firms
Zoe Schiffer / The Verge :
Facebook makes an initial commitment of $130M to its upcoming Oversight Board and says it will not announce the first members this year as originally expected
But Punts On Launching It Allison Matyus / Digital Trends : Facebook's long-promised Supreme Court for content won't be here for a long time Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Facebook Allocates...
Behind EyeDetect, a controversial eye-scanning lie detector powered by a proprietary algorithm that its makers claim has 86% accuracy, higher than the polygraph
SITTING IN FRONT of a Converus EyeDetect station, it's impossible not to think of Blade Runner. Tweets: @wired , @jaycstanley , @marion_infolaw , and @andreawiggins Tweets: @wired : EyeDetect is pitch...