More On ISOC’s .ORG Sale

More On ISOC’s .ORG Sale

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via El Reg's Kieren McCarthy - reporting from San Francisco - CA, comes an excoriating analysis of the corrupt sale of the TLD commonly known as .ORG*, and actions thereabouts. Read it ...
Shell Game

Shell Game

via Kieren McCarthy, reporting for the venerable El Reg, comes timely reportage exposing the greed (not to mention the hubris) of the shell game being played by ISOC, ICANN and others of ...
Forbrukerrådet: New Study's Conclusion - The Advertising Industry Are Law Breakers On A Massive Scale

Forbrukerrådet: New Study’s Conclusion – The Advertising Industry Are Law Breakers On A Massive Scale

Outstanding reports - via Norwegian Forbrukerrådet detailing the systematic criminal behavior exhibited by Advertising Entites and their Ilk, with the resultant aglommeration of data which permits them to collect and store an ...
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Corporate Twisting Of Privacy Laws

Quite likely, the single most important Privacy related paper you should examine. Today's Must Grok. Permalink ...
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ISOC’s PIR Attempts (Succeeded) To Sell Itself & .ORG TLD To Equity Firm ‘Ethos Capital’

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It's an astonishing state of affairs, when the Public Internet Registry (PIR) can sell itself, without clear oversight and scrutiny as the sole administrator of the .ORG TLD (efectively meaning the conveyance ...
Big Cable To Oppose Robocalling Regulations

Big Cable To Oppose Robocalling Regulations

via Jon Brodkin, reporting at Ars Technica comes this story of Those Terrible People In The Cable Industry. The latest outrage from the Cable Industry (in the United States, at least) is ...
Let The Shilling Begin

Let The Shilling Begin

Bad behavior by Bezos' Amazon and subsidiary Ring is tainting any police investigation at it's most fundamental levels by forcing secret agreements, and endorsments for the company's products. Jeff Bezos', where is ...
Facebookery: All The Many Datas of Zuckerberg

Facebookery: All The Many Datas of Zuckerberg

via Sam Biddle, writing at The Intercept, comes this astonishing story of manifest Facebookery firmly situated within the rarified telecom world of data sharing between and betwixt the telecom leviathans and that ...
The Unenforceables

The Unenforceables

via Nicholas Vinocour, reporting at Politico, of the apparent enforcement shortcomings evidenced by the European Union's GDPR Data Protection Commission (in this case, the entity entrusted with the enforcement of the GDPR ...
Google Utilizing Consumer Gmail Accounts to Track Purchases, Financial Transactions

Google Utilizing Consumer Gmail Accounts to Track Purchases, Financial Transactions

News of recently revealed and egregious tracking behaviors at Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG); specifically Google is using your Gmails account to track your purchases. Our suggestions is to immediately remove any financial ...

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