Tag: impersonated

14 DEC

2 million people—and some dead ones—were impersonated in net neutrality comments

Enlarge / An analysis from New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. (credit: New York Attorney General’s office) An analysis of public comments on the FCC’s plan to repeal net neutrality rules found that 2 million of them were filed using stolen identities. That’s according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. “Millions of fake comments have […]

25 MAY

People who were impersonated by anti-net neutrality spammers blast FCC

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Palto) Fourteen people who say their names and addresses were attached to anti-net neutrality comments without their permission have asked the Federal Communications Commission to notify other victims of the impersonation and remove fraudulent comments from the net neutrality docket. As we’ve previously reported, there have been hundreds of thousands of identical comments that […]