Sony Threatens to Sue Twitter Unless It Removes Tweets Containing Hacked Emails
(Vice Motherboard): http://motherboard.vice.com/read/sony-threatens-to-sue-twitter-unless-it-removes-tweets-containing-hacked-emails "Sony's battle on people disseminating its hacked and leaked emails has extended from news outlets to random Twitter users to, now, Twitter itself. Sony's lawyer has threatened Twitter with legal action if the social networking company doesn't ban accounts that are sharing the leaks, according to emails obtained by Motherboard." - - - Speaking of the "Streisand Effect" and threats like this actually attracting *more* attention to the stolen info, the joke going around currently is variations on: "Shouldn't Sony know better? After all, aren't there Sony execs who have actually *met* Barbra Streisand?" Indeed. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy I am a consultant to Google -- I speak only for myself, not for them. Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
