Judge Shuts Down Web Site Specializing in Leaks
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The contenets of the site, whose goal is to discourage âunethical behaviorâ by corporations and governments, can still be found on âmirror sitesâ around the internet.
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A federal judged ruled that the Web site was not protected by the First Amendment because it incited criminal conduct.
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Thai authorities have shut down a political Web site that spoke out against the monarchy, the site's operator said Sunday, in another move to punish critics of Thailand's most revered institution.
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A federal judge rejects a bid by Wired News and other media outlets to unseal whistle-blower papers in a lawsuit over surveillance of Americans. In 27B Stroke 6.
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One of the Web's most popular file-sharing sites has shut down less than a week after Hollywood announced a flurry of lawsuits against operators of such Internet servers.
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PHILADELPHIA A federal judge has tossed out Pennsylvania&#39;s law that requires Internet service providers to block child porn Web sites.
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An obscure government website that became an Internet conflagration
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A US judge on Thursday struck down a law allowing federal anti-terrorism agents to access financial, telephone and Internet records without a warrant.
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A California district court has shut down a controversial Web site in the U.S. that allows whistle blowers to post corporate and government documents online anonymously.A site known as Wikileaks.org has been taken offline in the U.S. due to a court order from the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. However, the site remains online in other countries, including Belgium and Germany.The order in the U.S. came after a Swiss bank, Julius Baer, earlier this month filed a complaint against the site and San Mateo, California-based Dynadot, Wikileaks&#39; domain-name registry, for posting several hundred of the bank&#39;s documents.Some of those documents allegedly reveal that Julius Baer was involved in offshore money laundering and tax evasion in the Cayman Islands for customers in several countries, including the U.S.The court ordered that &quot;Dynadot shall immediately clear and remove all DNS hosting records for the wikileaks.org domain name,&quot; according to court documents. It also said that Dynadot should prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org Web site or any other Web site or server other than a blank park page until further notice.A spokesman for Julius Baer could not be reached for comment Monday.According to its Web site, the purpose of Wikileaks, founded in 2006, is to develop &quot;an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking and public analysis.&quot;Wikileaks has been plagued by controversy since its inception, coming under fire from institutions whose confidential documents have been posted on the site and from critics who have questioned the motives of the site&#39;s founders. Still, others have praised the site for supporting the free dissemination of information.Wikileaks posted a press statement on its site about the U.S. order, calling it &quot;clearly unconstitutional&quot; and said it &quot;exceeds its jurisdiction.&quot;
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A U.S. court has temporarily shut  down an operation that used "spam" e-mail to drum up customers  for a fraudulent work-at-home scheme, the U.S. Federal Trade  Commission said on Tuesday.
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Blog: In unprecedented decision, judge orders search engine to turn over user information stored in RAM.  Court allows IP addresses to be blacked out for now.
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Part of the Managemyhome.com site goes offline after critics point out it revealed customers' purchasing histories.
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A federal judge dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame's lawsuit against members of the Bush administration Thursday, eliminating one of the last courtroom remnants of the leak scandal.
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By JUDY O'ROURKE  SANTA CLARITA -- A popular community Web site that was recently mimicked by a copycat appears to have shut down the imitator, its owner said Tuesday.
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A U.S. district judge struck down the section of the act that requires telephone and ISPs to turn over records to the government without telling customers.
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(InfoWorld) - A U.S. judge has shut down Qchex, an online check-creating service, after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complained the company creates and sends checks without verifying the customer has authority to write checks on the account being used. Qchex, part of Neovi Inc., has agreed to a temporary restraining order halting what the FTC called its "unfair business practices," the FTC announced Monday. The FTC has asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California to permanently shut down Qchex's operations and to force Qchex to return profits from its service. Judge William Hayes approved the temporary restraining order Sept. 22. Con artists have used Qchex's service to gain unauthorized access to bank accounts, the FTC said, and businesses that have received "fraudulent" Qchex checks have also become victims. A call to Qchex's customer service number led to a voice mail telling customers their concerns were be addressed in 24 to 48 hours. Qchex did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment on the FTC court case. The Qchex service is suspended until further notice "due to maintenance," according to a note on Qchex.com. Before September 2005, Qchex offered and sold its online check services without making "any effort at all" to verify that customers had authorized access to the bank accounts they were using, the FTC said in a press release. Qchex would create and deliver checks for a customer even when the customerâs name was different from the name on the checking account and different from the name on the credit-card account the customer used to pay for the check service, the FTC said. In September 2005, Qchex implemented -- then subsequently abandoned -- a series of verification plans that the FTC called haphazard and ineffective. Some account holders whose accounts were debited without their authorization tried to contact Qchex to tell the company it was processing checks on the wrong account, but they could not locate a working phone number for Qchex, the FTC said. In some cases where account holders did reach Qchex, the company ignored them and continued to create and deliver checks on their accounts, it added. The FTC has received hundreds of consumer complaints about the company, the agency said. Scammers also used Qchex checks in overpayment schemes, in which the scammer overpaid an unsuspecting third party for items or services and asked that third party to wire back the difference between the price of the item or service and the amount of the bogus Qchex check, the FTC said. The checks initially cleared, so these recipients of Qchex checks wired the excess funds as requested. When an unauthorized check ultimately bounced, the amount of the previously deposited Qchex check was debited from the victimâs account. The defendantsâ conduct constitutes unfair practices that violate the FTC Act, the FTC said. Defendants named in this case are Neovi Inc., doing business as Neovi Data Corp. and Qchex.com; G7 Productivity Systems Inc., doing business as Qchex.com; and their principal owners, James M. Danforth and Thomas Villwock. The defendants are based in San Diego.
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In a blow to the Justice Department&#39;s post-Sept. 11 powers, a federal judge said the government&#39;s ability to conduct secret and unchallengable searches of Internet and telephone records violates the Constitution.