Privacy & Intellectual Property
US-Trained Spy Worked at Qatari Telco Before Spying for UAE
Lori Stroud, former colleague of Ed Snowden, began spying for the UAE shortly after reviewing IT security for Ooredoo.
Disturbing Accounts of US-Trained Phone Spies Working for UAE
We all know electronic spies have sophisticated tools, but you may be shocked by the moral vacuity of the hired help.
What Do We Do with Huawei?
A US indictment accuses Huawei of literally stealing a robot arm from T-Mobile. The risks of doing business with Huawei are widely known, so why does much of our industry ignore them?
A Quarter of Americans Stream Video from a Different Household’s Account
Cartesian surveyed US consumers about the sharing of passwords for internet video streaming services.
Huge Fine for Chinese Online Video Pirates QVOD
A court in Guangdong has upheld a fine of CNY260mn (USD38.5mn) after Tencent and other major Chinese online video providers complained that QVOD supported piracy.
Record Number of US File-Sharing Piracy Lawsuits
Two porn streaming businesses are responsible for lodging more than half of all copyright cases in the USA last year.
SMS Used to Hijack UK Celebrity Twitter Accounts
Some questioned the ethics and legality of the stunt, but it does raise the question of why Twitter still allows users to manage their accounts via SMS.
Top EU Lawyer Says Germany Cannot Enforce Net Copyright Law
The EU was not given proper notification of a German law that limits web quotations from press articles.
First Greek Net Blocking Orders Prove Ineffective
Greece is the latest country to discover that if you block a specific URL then pirates will simply move their site to a different URL.
Israeli Spyware Implicated in Khashoggi Murder
A confidant of the murdered Saudi is suing an Israeli business whose spyware was found on his phone.
EU Publishes Piracy Watchlist
US content delivery network Cloudflare is mentioned alongside obviously problematic endeavors like Popcorn Time and The Pirate Bay.
YouTube Lobbies Users about EU Upload Filters
YouTube's #SaveYourInternet campaign is more about creating an ideal competitive environment for YouTube than protecting Europeans from robotic censorship.
The Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard
Our Global Fraud Dashboard uses AI-powered search to collate, update and visualize data about scams and other network abuses from around the world. New charts are added each month. See it here.
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