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- SEC Charges Morgan Stanley With Inadequate Disclosure in Fund Sales
- Firm pushed "preferred" funds and failed to inform customers about higher fees associated with certain class of shares.
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- Complaint: SEC v. Morgan Stanley Regarding Stock Research Conflicts of Interest
- Complaint filed with the U.S. District Court alleging conflicts of interest for Morgan Stanley's research analysts with respect to investment banking activities and considerations. (April 28, 2003)
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- VeriSign's redirect page leaking data
- The search page at VeriSign, which appears for all mistyped .com and .net sites, passes information to a marketing firm. A computer security researcher said that this could include personal information. [The Sydney Morning Herald] (September 30, 2003)
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- Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo
- VeriSign's pay-for-play search, which appears for all unregistered .com and .net web sites, tries to set a cookie for a third party. Privacy advocates also worry that the registrar may be harvesting e-mail addresses. [SecurityFocus] (September 18, 2003)
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- All your Web typos are belong to us
- Reports that network admins are furious at Verisign for redirecting requests for nonexistent domains to an advertisement. [The Register] (September 16, 2003)
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- Verisign Accused of DNS Slamming
- Thomas C. Greene writes: "Now Verisign (formerly Network Solutions) is taking heat for a practice which borders on registrar slamming." [The Register] (March 26, 2002)
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- Jeffrey Zeldman: 2 March 2001
- Conclusion to a tale of poor service from Verisign. (March 02, 2001)
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- After The Regretsy and Diaspora Account Freezes, We've Lost Confidence In PayPal
- PayPal has made several contested account freezes of legitimate causes. [TechCrunch] (December 06, 2011)
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- PayPal to Zivity: You're Too Naughty!
- "Zivity fighting back, as PayPal calls them 'obscene.'" [NBC Bay Area] (December 06, 2011)
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- PayPal Feels Web's Wrath After "Ruining Christmas"
- "PayPal is taking an Internet beating after allegedly freezing an account for a charitable gift buying program." [Mashable] (December 06, 2011)
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- PayPal Restores Zivity's Account After Saying It Was Obscene, But Now It's Not
- PayPal freezes accounts of social network for models, claiming it was "selling adult-oriented digital materials", resolved shortly after coverage by NBC. [TechCrunch] (December 05, 2011)
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- PayPal Freezes $750K in MineCraft Dev's Account
- "The creator of MineCraft has run into a bit of a snag with PayPal, which has frozen his account with over $763,000 in it and refuses to let him touch it." [The Escapist] (September 10, 2010)
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- Phormwatch
- Blog providing news and tracking companies connected with Phorm's system and trials thereof. [Atom]
- 194
- The Register: The Phorm files
- Links to articles published by The Register covering developments in the Phorm system and activism against it.
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- The Phorm "Webwise" System - A Legal Analysis
- Paper by Nicholas Bohm, in which he argues that the proposed system is likely to fall foul of data interception, privacy, data protection, and fraud laws in the UK. [PDF] (April 23, 2008)
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- Light Blue Touchpaper: The Phorm "Webwise" System
- Blog post by Richard Clayton giving his views on the system following a meeting with Phorm officials. (April 04, 2008)
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- The Phorm "Webwise" System
- Paper by Richard Clayton, providing technical details of the proposed system following a meeting with Phorm engineers. [PDF] (April 04, 2008)