More Local News Caught in Flood of Unrelated Copyright Takedown Requests Hewson Duffy on August 15, 2024 A set of over 60,00 notuces in Lumen's database, ostensibly targeting Turkish escort sites, inadvertently sweep up local news URLs.
What’s Behind The Unusual DMCA Notices From “Crowdstrike”? Hewson Duffy on August 12, 2024 In the wake of the disatrous Windows update of July, 2024, several mysterious DMCA notices sent to Google, apparently form Crowdstrike
Takedowns: Olympic Edition Hewson Duffy on August 1, 2024 Lumen has identified new signs of a coordinated and potentially automated fraudulent DMCA takedown campaign relating to articles about a Russian Olympian. Building on work done by past Lumen team members and documented in previous Lumen blog posts, the evidence presented here sheds light on previously unreported tactics that may be used in attempts to suppress unfavorable information.
Tell Them To Bring Out The Whole Ocean Hewson Duffy on July 30, 2024 A standard DMCA notice from an OnlyFans performer leads to the de-indexing of some unrelated science & environment webpages
New Features For Researchers the Lumen Team on June 14, 2024 Lumen adds two new features for research: a search improvement and a notice watch list
Lumen Researcher Interview Series: Professor Jon Penney The Lumen Team, Professor Jon Penney on May 25, 2023 the Lumen teamn chats with Professor Jon Penney about how Lumen has been part of his work.
Investigative report on reputation management highlights continued abuse of copyright and other laws to manipulate online media Shreya Tewari on February 23, 2023 Earlier this week, on February 17 2023, an investigative news report about Eliminalia, a Spanish reputation management firm made headlines. The leaked documents in the report revealed that Eliminalia “worked for scammers, spyware companies, torturers, convicted criminals and others in the global underworld to hide public-interest information” under the guise of being a service that claimed “to remove unwanted and erroneous information” for clients.
A Russian oligarch is still trying to erase himself from the internet (and it’s working) Alana Prinzessin Zu Sayn Wittgenstein on January 26, 2023 Further research into the organized use of "weaponized" DMCA notices to manage online reputations
