Scareware defendant fined $163M in FTC suit

Computerworld Security: October 03, 2012
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Scareware defendant fined $163M in FTC suit

A U.S. judge has imposed a judgment of $163.2 million against a defendant
accused by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission of being part of an operation that
sold software to people it tricked into thinking their computers were infected
with malicious software.
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Cell phone location data not private, Feds argue

Individuals have no reasonable expectation of privacy in historical cell phone
location data collected by phone companies, a federal prosecutor said in oral
arguments Monday before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
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Swedish police confiscate three servers during raid on former Pirate Bay host

Swedish police confiscated three servers allegedly connected to copyright
infringements during a raid on PRQ, a hosting service that was once home to The
Pirate Bay. The main target was the Swedish torrent site tankafett.nu, according
to the hosting company's owner.
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