Long before Edward Snowden leaked information about the NSA’s vast spying network, Qwest resisted the NSA’s request for telephone records and received a significant amount of positive media coverage as a result. Qwest was hailed as “a gleaming political touchstone and a beacon of... +Read more
Google helped protect the privacy of its users by supporting the passage of the California Reader Privacy Act . The law, which went into effect in January 2012 ,... +Read more
Tumblr was slammed for having a “complete lack of regard for the LGBT community” after it suddenly censored LGBTQ searches . The service blocked user... +Read more
Censoring the political speech of the popular rock band Pearl Jam landed AT&T in hot water in 2007 . The company censored several seconds of a live concert broadcast,... +Read more
In 2009, in a misguided attempt to boost user growth, social networking site Tagged sent millions of deceptive e-mails that misled recipients into giving the company access to their contact lists. As users became aware of the deception, Tagged’s reputation and pocketbook both suffered. In addition to being called... +Read more
Bohemia Interactive’s ARMA II game was released in 2009, but the game achieved its greatest success in 2012 thanks to a zombie-themed modification (“mod”) created by one of its players. The “Day-Z” mod “took the PC world by storm,”... +Read more
Viacom faced a lawsuit and media firestorm after it ignored the right to make “fair use” of copyright content by sending takedowns to YouTube in early 2007 demanding the removal of thousands of video clips that it... +Read more
Swiss bank Julius Baer saw its plans to prevent disclosure of its leaked corporate documents backfire when it tried to prevent WikiLeaks from distributing copies of these documents online . When the bank was able to obtain an initial court order disabling the WikiLeaks... +Read more
Yahoo was subject to lawsuits and protests in the U.S. and elsewhere for turning over identifying information in 2006 about its users to the Chinese government. The Chinese government used these data to link users to pro-democracy activities... +Read more
In 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America obtained a subpoena ordering Verizon to reveal the identity of a subscriber who had allegedly used peer-to-peer software to share music online. Verizon refused to comply with the subpoena and ultimately had the subpoena... +Read more
In 2011, the domain registry company Go Daddy’s support of the Stop Online Privacy Act led many customers to take their business elsewhere. After losing 37,000... +Read more
After tests by the Electronic Frontier Foundation revealed T-Mobile’s “Binge On” service was throttling video download speeds, CEO John Legere took to Twitter... +Read more