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According to the news, 23andme has settled for $30 million dollars but does so with statement not admitting any wrongdoing. Which I agree with. I’ll tell you why. I don’t think anyone should receive a dollar from this unless you were a family member of someone who was breached. Why? In October 2023, 23andMe revealed that unauthorized access to customer profiles occurred through compromised accounts. Hackers exploited credentials stolen from other breaches to access 23andMe accounts....

Check this out this video. Straight from the horses mouth. Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner announces her party will table new legislation to address online harms when Parliament returns. The conservatives want to kill Bill C-63, the Online Harms bill, and replace it with something insane that they made up. They are proposing a bill that is vague and would prevent websites from hosting content encouraging self harm. She even threw the fascist dog whistle ‘common sense’ in there....

Hello Folks! GoAccess is a great tool for web server log analysis. That’s what we use here at LegalBeaver. goaccess access.log -o output.html --log-format=COMBINED --ignore-crawlers --anonymize-ip --geoip-database=/path/to/geoip/GeoLite2-City.mmdb This is an example of what I run to generate web server analytics, and it’s great because it doesn’t require the website visitor to run scripts. Why? It’s better for you and it is better for the user to just use the raw logs and anonymize the IPs to be GDPR compliant....

A doctrine, developed mainly by the American courts in anti-trust cases, asserting jurisdiction over acts of foreign nationals committed abroad but having effects in the American marketplace; an extended form of the objective territorial principle. Source: Irwin Law The effects doctrine is a principle enabling a forum to assert jurisdiction over parties not present within a state but whose conduct outside the state’s territory affects the local market. The effects doctrine is frequently mistakenly equated with extraterritoriality....

Comrades, “He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past” -Kane This article delves into the past. I try pretty hard to avoid talking about Techrights, but this one is about Techrights. Claim: That I’ve been harassing Techrights for over 10 years. Here is what really happened. He has taken the facts and twisted them using cognitive reframing to make them sound nefarious....

Hello friends and enemies, I have released a set of scripts you can use to download all of the IRC logs published on Techrights and conduct various preprogrammed grep searches. The set of scripts are aptly named TechrightsAuditor Now you can mirror, search and basically audit the IRC logs of Techrights, all from your PC. Techrights is a well known Free Software News website, but it has a chat room with a lot of hate speech....

Greetings folks, People who take Roy’s side of the issue often accuse me of using my lawsuits as a form of harassment. That really does’t make much sense. Roy and his wife published a series of defamatory and transphobic articles about me with stolen photographs which are full of lies and conspiracy theories. I will never link these articles on my site but I recently transcribed my bookmarks. I have a document that I’ve called “Schedule C” which has over 80 days worth of articles and chat logs....

The Ontario Human Rights Commission has put together a excellent policy guidebook a number of years ago. I wanted to share some passages from it which I feel will help illustrate most of what I discuss on this site on the topic of transgender human rights law. First, it provides some definitions: Discrimination happens when a person experiences negative treatment or impact, intentional or not, because of their gender identity or gender expression....

In my last post I mentioned that I migrated the site to Hugo. I had previously relied on a Wordpress plugin for website statistics so I could tell who was coming to the site. Well, GoAccess just blows that plugin out of the water. It analyzes your logs directly and outputs a handy html file. That’s not the only good news. I ran it on the logs for wordpress. The website launched in February 2024....

I migrated the blog from Wordpress 6.5.x to Hugo. It was actually fairly quick and simple thanks to a tool called wp2hugo. While I was doing the migration, I converted all the image files to AVIF. Now LegalBeaver.ca is lightweight and modern. Wordpress was great and I had a lot of great experiences with it. Hugo is just a lot better and generates static html without the requirement of having an SQL database and PHP running....