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JetBlue Whistle-Blowers Threatened

Posted by timothy on from the legal-attack-dogs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Cryptome is reporting that Torch Concepts, the DOD contractor to whom JetBlue gave away its customers' personal information, is now sending cease and desist letters to the privacy activist Bill Scannell (who blew the whistle on the JetBlue scandal) and Len Sassaman, who made the evidence available on his website. The claim made by Torch is copyright violation -- are we about to see the DMCA used to silence corporate and government whistle-blowers? (Ironically, Scannell and Sassaman were two of the key people who launched the campaign to free DMCA victim Dmitry Sklyarov. Karma?"

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  1. Not on main page by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    Already hours and less a dozen posts? No "GNA" FP?

    Got the year wrong or something? Slashcode should automatically prevent that.

    I only found this because I searched for "jetblue", after reading Cryptome and this site:

    http://www.dontspyon.us/jetbluescandal.html

    In related news, eBay is spying on its customers. Not much new about that :(

    This story too is buried in the bowels of /., but not listed on main page.

    I must not be paying enough attention to /. For all I know perhaps /. has gone into the business of "region encoding" its stories, to segment its readership :)