Court says Irish minister can pursue Google to expose crypto ad scams
Ireland ’s second most senior politician received permission on Thursday to serve Google a notice demanding it reveal who paid for Scam crypto ads bearing his likeness. As reported by RTE, lawyers representing Tánaiste Mícheál Martin, a minister of the Fianna Fáil party, were permitted by the High Court to serve Google Ireland and Google LLC the notice. The notice allows Martin to take Google to court and challenge it to give up the identities of those publishing crypto ad scams using his likeness. Specifically, he wants to know from where the ads originated and the details of the accounts funding them. The ads displayed a made-up newspaper article with fake quotes from Martin claiming he was backing an automatic crypto trading program that could “ transform anyone into a millionaire within three to four months .” They also claimed that Martin received threats from large corporations after the crypto software made him “tens of thousands” in euros every day. The Fianna Fáil ...