M&Mâs World Headlines: Mar 4, 2009
Net campaign urges action over move to block websites Irish Times
An online campaign to protest against moves to block access to certain websites by Irish internet service providers (ISPs) gets under way tomorrow. Blackout Ireland is encouraging Irish internet users to contact their service providers, TDs and Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan to voice their opposition to the planned restrictions which are being spearheaded by the Irish Recorded Music Association (Irma). Internet users are also being asked to black out their profile pictures on social networking sites such as Twitter, Bebo, Facebook and MySpace for a week to show support for the campaign.
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Another DPI Ad Firm Sued DSLreports
Back in November, NebuAD and several of the ISPs who were doing business with them (Embarq, WOW, Centurytel and Cable One) were sued over their plan to sell subscriber browsing histories without giving customers a functional opt-out mechanism……Now a less well known company with a similar business model named Adzilla is facing a similar lawsuit in California, along with sixteen unnamed “John Doe” ISPs. Like NebuAD, Adzilla paid ISPs to install deep packet inspection hardware on their network to track which websites users visited (and for how long). [Additional info: http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/another-isp-ad.html]
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The Borings Eloquently Appeal The Street View Ruling, Declaring: Google, Don’t Tread On Me Tech Dirt
Last month, a court totally dismissed the lawsuit filed by Aaron and Christine Boring, who had complained about Google’s Street View images of their home, suggesting that the company had driven onto their private driveway to get the photos. The court pointed out, correctly, that the Borings had no case because they could have availed themselves of the simple mechanism on Google to remove the images. Still, the Borings are now appealing, and turning this into quite the epic battle of small guy vs. big company:
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Guess Who Facebook’s Just Sued For Spam? Tech Dirt
Last year, when MySpace won an uncollectable judgment against well-known spammer Stanford “Spamford” Wallace, part of the punishment was that he wasn’t allowed to set up any more MySpace profiles. Mike noted at the time that it didn’t say anything about Facebook, speculating that’s where Spamford might pop up next. So guess who Facebook’s just sued for sending spam Facebook messages? Yep, ol’ Spamford and a couple of his pals.
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EFF and ACLU Urge Court to Reject Warrantless GPS Tracking EFF
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capital Area (ACLU-NCA) urged a U.S. appeals court today to reject government claims that federal agents have an unfettered right to install Global Positioning System (GPS) location-tracking devices on anyone’s car without a search warrant.
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US spy agency gains support for cyber security role The Register
The United States’ top intelligence official argued last week that the National Security Agency should become the nation’s cyber defender, adding his voice to the growing murmur of support for the agency’s future role in cyberspace.
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ToysRUs pays $5m for toys domain BBC
Toy retailer ToysRUs has paid $5.1m (£3.6m) for the Toys.com domain name. The amount has surprised onlookers and hints at a deeper commitment to online retailing for the toy giant.
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Twitter, Google Maps Used To Track Down Two Missing Skiers Tech Crunch
Yesterday, a group of technology entrepreneurs from the UK on a skiing vacation in the Swiss Alps (Verbier) lost two of their party around 4 PM CET. Other members of the group put out a request on Twitter in order to learn the numbers of their mobile phones, so they could use the signals to track them down.
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Internet auction fraudster jailed BBC
A man who faked his own death after conning eBay customers out of £23,500 worth of goods they did not receive has been jailed for two years. Jason Hart, 33, from Moorside Avenue in Farnworth, Greater Manchester, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud and perjury at Bolton Crown Court. The court heard how he called a local newspaper claiming to be his father, to say his son had died in a house fire. But Hart was alive and trying to put off customers he had deceived. The court heard how he took money from at least 28 buyers – but the goods were never delivered.
March, 2009
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March 4th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
ok you all know i have serious issues with idiots over at bell Canada, well now it gets fun , i’m going to be posting sometime in the next week or so my entire set of bell bills with notes and such attached , i will let you al see what everyone goes through with these people , and remember I have an IQ of 160 average people wont see little 5 $ charges here and their and something on a telephone bill called
bell expressvu All-in-one refundab ( that is in fact NOT a refund and is in fact a 50$ charge that i have received in error for and since
they keep trying for some reaosn to get 209 $ out of both me and my dad making up allkinds a crap.
If you wish jon after i scan these ill send you a complete copy so you can see what a mom and pop persn has to go thorugh and how they end up extorting people
and i guarantee you that any lawyer seeing the wrod refund when its a charge would and could have bell in serious trouble for misrepresentation.
AND ironic over the phone the guy said he would snd me all the bills of the last year BUT he only sends ones where it APPEARS i owe money
and ironically they start off in january 3 months after i moved up here and dropped 289$ ionto the acocunt for moving. So it all starts with credits even into january
you will see early termination levied and given back to me
billing me for internet in march say when i was with teksavvy in march
not refunding taxes ( tax evasion anyone )
credits that dont match what they charge and on same issue with taxes.
and NO where do i see a credit for the 2.5 months i was unable to get bell tv
this is what he said was int he bills and yet NO where.
HA got ya.
March 4th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
shrug, this post will be caught in the new spam thing anyhow… so why not…
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