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Beerismydad writes:
Remember the Prenda Law Group patent trolls who ended up in jail? A similar scheme has emerged where people who view porn produced by Strike 3 are shaken down in the courts and shamed into settling. U.S. Judge Royce C. Lamberth of Washington, D.C., described the porn producing company Strike 3 as, "Armed with hundreds of cut-and-pasted complaints and boilerplate discovery motions, Strike 3 floods this courthouse (and others around the country) with lawsuits smacking of extortion. It treats this Court not as a citadel of justice, but as an ATM." He likened its litigation strategy to a "high-tech shakedown."
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Beerismydad writes:
From the Associated Press: Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who fled prosecution after revealing highly classified surveillance programs, has received a Russian passport and taken the citizenship oath, Russian news agencies quoted his lawyer as saying Friday.
Lawyer Anatoly Kucherena was reported as saying that Snowden got the passport and took the oath on Thursday, about three months after Russian President Vladimir Putin granted him citizenship.
The reports did not specify whether Snowden has renounced his U.S. citizenship. The United States revoked his passport in 2013, leading to Snowden being stranded in a Moscow airport for weeks after arriving from Hong Kong, aiming to reach Ecuador.
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Beerismydad writes:
TikTok is resisting calls to preserve and hand over access to its content for war crime investigations, as lawyers and activists warn that the Chinese-owned app is a major data challenge in prosecuting atrocities in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Since early 2022, TikTok has met with human rights lawyers, activists, and others involved in Ukraine war crime investigations. However, it has yet to introduce any changes to its process or the product itself.
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Beerismydad writes:
A Virginia man was secretly tracked by Chester County Police detectives using a warrant, which ordered Verizon to regularly ping the man's location and report it to police. The catch? The man was not named as a suspect in the warrant and has not been charged with a crime since the investigation began.
According to InsideNova, a local online news source for Northern Virginia, "The case offers a glimpse into a surveillance technique that’s become commonplace for police but is mostly unknown among the general public: cell phone location tracking."
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Beerismydad writes:
The IRS said it would no longer use a third-party service, called ID.me, for facial recognition. Critics of the software said the database could become a target for cyberthreats. They also expressed concern about how the information could be used by other government agencies, among other concerns.
