Privacy International Plans To Sue ACS:Law For Mishandling Information On Those It Threatened
from the oops dept
A bit more fallout from the ACS:Law email leak. In the comments on our last post, cc pointed out that one of the discoveries in the leaks is that ACS:Law did not properly protect the private information of those who paid up after receiving a pre-settlement threat letter. In fact, the email leaks apparently revealed over 10k names, addresses and credit card details in some cases. Because of this, Privacy International is planning to file a lawsuit against the company, for not living up to EU privacy regulations on such information. PI is claiming that the company violated data protection laws by allowing sensitive information to be stored on a public-facing server, and not taking the "appropriate technical and organisational measures" to protect the data.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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BSkyB finally challenging them too...
Of course, it would have been nice if they'd done that from the start. When compelled to hand over IP addresses by court order, I would love an ISP to add some covering text along the lines of :
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This really doesnt seem to be all that profitable any more ....
I would be neat if RIAA and MPAA e-mails became public. It would clean all of the RIAA lawyers out the Justice department.
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But just like zombies, there are always more to take their place.....
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i think all of those shows don't do enough to differentiate themselves. they should be titled by their most distinguishing characteristics:
CSI: cute goth girl
the show with ice-T
law and order: sunglasses guy
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Reduced ROI
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Don't Forget...
Also PI... ahhh yes, wasn't it one of their bods who was fine with the likes of phorm and their nasty little scam? perhaps ACS:Law should have hired him to produce a few statements.
The very fact that scams like this fall apart once people know about them is why the people trying to push them want this to end up much more criminal so they don't have the costs.
Slightly surprised the BBC is covering it though, they are normally more likely to point out the evils of file sharing. Maybe some things are slowly changing, at least until the blue/yellow ones yank the chain tight again.
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Like with the 4chan thing a few weeks ago. The BBC actually presented the story and that it was in retaliation for anti-piracy efforts rather than just a random attack. I was pretty happy to see BBC actually present both sides on such an issue.
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There are two sides to this story; one is the personal data leak, which is what the ICO, Privacy International and the MSM are all discussing, and then there is the details about the legal practice, the "scaring", the dismissal of justice and due process, the back-door deals with ISPs, and the estimates for what the "actual" damages would be in a fairl trial etc. which, hopefully, the SRA will deal with, but the media are ignoring.
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I assume other providers will have to follow suit, because knowing that ACS:LAW is deliberately posting peoples names, credit card info etc (perhaps as a way to 'punish' them more?), they open themselves to liability by offering customer data.
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