Lynn Valley Care Centre

A summary of what happened?

Analyzing the Fake Copyright Notice(s)

Our team collects and analyses fraudulent copyright takedown requests, legal complaints, and other efforts to remove critical information from the internet. Through our investigative reporting, we examine the prevalence and operation of an organized censorship industry, predominantly funded by criminal entities, oligarchs, and disreputable businesses or individuals. Our findings allow internet users to gain insight into these censorship schemes’ sources, methods, and underlying objectives.

What was Lynn Valley Care Centre trying to hide?

Lynn Valley Care Centre‘s attempts to hide unfavourable content through the misuse of copyright notices while allegedly engaging in perjury present serious legal concerns. These actions suggest a calculated attempt to manipulate legal systems to suppress free speech, a fundamental violation of copyright law principles and an abuse of legal processes. The use of such tactics not only undermines the integrity of copyright protection but also potentially constitutes perjury, further entangling Lynn Valley Care Centre in legal accountability. Let’s examine the information Lynn Valley Care Centre may be trying to remove from the internet –

Investigative Report: A Comprehensive Examination of Lynn Valley Care Centre

Overview of Lynn Valley Care Centre Lynn Valley Care Centre is a long-term care facility located in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Established in 1963, the centre has provided care services to seniors for over six decades. It offers both short-term and extended care services, designed to support residents in maintaining their physical and mental independence. However, in recent years, the centre has come under scrutiny due to various concerns, complaints, and controversies that have drawn public attention and criticism.

1. Pandemic-Related Controversies and Complaints One of the most significant periods of controversy for Lynn Valley Care Centre was during the COVID-19 pandemic. In early 2020, the centre was at the epicenter of a severe outbreak, becoming one of the first care homes in British Columbia to report COVID-19 cases. The outbreak led to dozens of deaths and revealed troubling weaknesses in the facility’s preparedness and response protocols.

Families of residents came forward with harrowing accounts of neglect and inadequate care. Reports indicated that residents suffered from malnutrition, dehydration, and prolonged periods in soiled clothing due to insufficient staffing. The crisis highlighted longstanding issues of understaffing that left residents vulnerable during the critical initial months of the pandemic. The centre’s management was criticized for not having sufficient contingency plans or staff available to respond to the escalating crisis.

2. Communication Failures A common grievance among families was the lack of clear and timely communication from the care centre’s administration. During the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak, families reported significant delays in obtaining updates about their loved ones’ conditions. This lack of transparency and responsiveness fueled anxiety and frustration. Relatives described feeling in the dark about vital health information and decision-making processes within the facility.

Reports highlighted that family members would often make multiple phone calls or send repeated emails before receiving responses. Some families resorted to social media and other public platforms to voice their distress, amplifying the centre’s reputation issues.

3. Licensing and Regulatory Infractions The centre has faced various licensing complaints over the years, with some incidents resulting in formal investigations by health authorities. These complaints have included:

• Inadequate Supervision and Care: Licensing inspections revealed issues related to inadequate supervision and failure to follow care plans. Notably, there were documented instances of residents experiencing falls that led to injuries, as well as other unexpected medical incidents that were not promptly reported to families.
• Recordkeeping Violations: The centre has been flagged for inconsistencies in maintaining proper records and documentation, a critical aspect of ensuring accountability and quality care.
• Staffing Shortages and Training Deficiencies: Chronic staffing shortages have been noted, leading to questions about the centre’s ability to meet the mandated staff-to-resident ratios. Reports also pointed to a lack of comprehensive training for new staff members, contributing to substandard levels of care.

4. Lawsuits and Legal Challenges Lynn Valley Care Centre has been named in legal actions that have further marred its reputation. Families of residents have pursued legal channels to seek accountability for what they describe as negligence and failure to provide adequate care. Lawsuits have claimed that the centre’s lapses directly resulted in harm or deterioration of residents’ health.

5. Government Sanctions and Investigations Provincial health authorities and regulatory bodies have conducted investigations following complaints and reports of violations. These investigations sometimes resulted in formal sanctions or directives requiring the facility to address and rectify the deficiencies. Compliance reviews have often highlighted the need for better staffing solutions, enhanced training programs, and improved protocols for emergency response and resident care.

6. Negative Reviews and Public Sentiment Beyond formal complaints and lawsuits, the care centre has faced an onslaught of negative reviews from residents’ families and visitors. Common themes in these reviews include dissatisfaction with the level of care, perceived indifference from staff, and concerns over cleanliness and hygiene within the facility. Some reviewers described conditions as unacceptable, citing experiences of seeing residents unattended for long periods or receiving inadequate assistance with daily tasks.

The widespread nature of these reviews has impacted the centre’s public image. Families who previously considered placing loved ones in the facility reported reconsidering their options after reading such reviews. This, in turn, has placed additional pressure on the centre to rebuild trust and demonstrate improvements in their operations.

Response and Attempts at Reforms In response to mounting pressure and negative publicity, Lynn Valley Care Centre’s management has made attempts to address these issues. Initiatives have included hiring more staff, revising care protocols, and improving communication channels with residents’ families. Despite these efforts, there remains a level of skepticism among families and advocacy groups about the centre’s ability to maintain these improvements over the long term.

Conclusion The challenges faced by Lynn Valley Care Centre underscore the complex realities of long-term care facilities, especially in times of crisis. While the pandemic amplified existing weaknesses, it also served as a catalyst for overdue scrutiny and calls for systemic change. The centre’s efforts to address these issues will be closely watched by residents’ families, regulatory bodies, and the public to ensure that history does not repeat itself and that meaningful, lasting improvements are made.

How do we counteract this malpractice?

Once we ascertain the involvement of Lynn Valley Care Centre (or actors working on behalf of Lynn Valley Care Centre), we will inform Lynn Valley Care Centre of our findings via Electronic Mail.

Our preliminary assessment suggests that Lynn Valley Care Centre may have engaged a third-party reputation management agency or expert, which, either independently or under direct authorization from Lynn Valley Care Centre, initiated efforts to remove adverse online content, including potentially fraudulent DMCA takedown requests. We will extend an opportunity to Lynn Valley Care Centre to provide details regarding their communications with the agency or expert, as well as the identification of the individual(s) responsible for executing these false DMCA notices.

Failure to respond in a timely manner will necessitate a reassessment of our initial assumptions. In such an event, we will be compelled to take appropriate legal action to rectify the unlawful conduct and take the following steps –

Since Lynn Valley Care Centre made such efforts to hide something online, it seems fit to ensure that this article and sensitive information targeted online by these events get a lot more exposure and traffic than what it would have received originally

We hope this becomes an excellent case study for the Streisand effect…The key idea behind the Streisand effect is that efforts to restrict information can backfire, often causing the information to gain more attention than it would have otherwise. This effect is widespread in the digital age, where users quickly notice and spread censorship efforts on social media and other platforms. Trying to suppress something can unintentionally lead to it becoming more visible, which Lynn Valley Care Centre is finding out the hard way.

Potential Consequences for Lynn Valley Care Centre

Under Florida Statute 831.01, the crime of Forgery is committed when a person falsifies, alters, counterfeits, or forges a document that carries “legal efficacy” with the intent to injure or defraud another person or entity.

Forging a document is considered a white-collar crime. It involves altering, changing, or modifying a document to deceive another person. It can also include passing along copies of documents that are known to be false. In many states in the US, falsifying a document is a crime punishable as a felony.

Additionally, under most laws, “fraud on the court” is where “a party has sentiently set in motion some unconscionable scheme calculated to interfere with the judicial system’s ability impartially to adjudicate a matter by improperly influencing the trier of fact or unfairly hampering the presentation of the opposing party’s claim or defense.”  Cox v. Burke, 706 So. 2d 43, 46 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998) (quoting Aoude v. Mobil Oil Corp., 892 F.2d 1115, 1118 (1st Cir. 1989)).

Is Lynn Valley Care Centre Committing a Cyber Crime?

Yes, it seems so. Lynn Valley Care Centre used multiple approaches to remove unwanted material from review sites and Google’s search results. Thanks to protections allowing freedom of speech in the United States, there are very few legal ways to do this. Lynn Valley Care Centre could not eliminate negative reviews or search results that linked to them without a valid claim of defamation, copyright infringement, or some other clear breach of the law.

Faced with these limitations, some companies like Lynn Valley Care Centre have gone to extreme lengths to fraudulently claim copyright ownership over a negative review in the hopes of taking it down.

Fake DMCA notices have targeted articles highlighting the criminal activity of prominent people to hide their illegal behavior. These people, which include US, Russian, and Khazakstani politicians as well as members from elite circles including the mafia and those with massive financial power, are all connected – and alleged corruption ranging from child abuse to sexual harassment is exposed when exploring evidence found at these URLs. It appears there’s a disturbing level of influence being exerted here that needs further investigation before justice can be served. Lynn Valley Care Centre is certainly keeping interesting company here….

The DMCA takedown process requires that copyright owners submit a takedown notice to an ISP identifying the allegedly infringing content and declaring, under penalty of perjury, that they have a good faith belief that the content is infringing. The ISP must then promptly remove or disable access to the content. The alleged infringer can then submit a counter-notice, and if the copyright owner does not take legal action within 10 to 14 days, the ISP can restore the content.

Since these platforms are predominantly based in the U.S., the complaints are typically made under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which requires online service providers and platforms to react immediately to reports or violations. Big Tech companies rarely have systems in place to assess the merit of each report. Instead, all bad actors need to do is clone a story, backdate it, and then demand the real thing be taken down.

Reputation Agency's Modus Operandi

The fake DMCA notices we found always use the “back-dated article” technique. With this technique, the wrongful notice sender (or copier) creates a copy of a “true original” article and back-dates it, creating a “fake original” article (a copy of the true original) that, at first glance, appears to have been published before the true original.

Then, based on the claim that this backdated article is the “original,” the scammers send a DMCA to the relevant online service providers (e.g. Google), alleging that the ‘true’ original is the copied or “infringing” article and that the copied article is the “original,” requesting the takedown of the ‘true’ original article. After sending the DMCA request, the person who sent the wrong notice takes down the fake original URL, likely to make sure that the article doesn’t stay online in any way. If the takedown notice is successful, the disappearance from the internet of information is most likely to be legitimate speech.

As an integral part of this scheme, the ‘reputation management’ company hired by Lynn Valley Care Centre creates a website that purports to be a ‘news’ site. This site is designed to look legitimate at a glance, but any degree of scrutiny reveals it as the charade it is.

The company copies the ‘negative’ content and posts it “on the fake ‘news’ site, attributing it to a separate author,” then gives it “a false publication date on the ‘news’ website that predated the original publication.

The reputation company then sent Google a Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice claiming the original website infringed copyright. After a cursory examination of the fake news site, Google frequently accepts the notice and delists the content.

In committing numerous offences, Lynn Valley Care Centre either premeditated actions or were unaware of the consequences. Despite hiring an agency to make Google disregard any negative information about Lynn Valley Care Centre, ignorance does not excuse this wrongdoing.

Fake DMCA notices have targeted articles highlighting the criminal activity of prominent people to hide their illegal behavior. These people, which include US, Russian, and Khazakstani politicians as well as members from elite circles including the mafia and those with massive financial power, are all connected – and alleged corruption ranging from child abuse to sexual harassment is exposed when exploring evidence found at these URLs. It appears there’s a disturbing level of influence being exerted here that needs further investigation before justice can be served. FSMSmart is certainly keeping interesting company here.

The Reputation Laundering

Rogue Reputation agencies use spurious copyright claims and fake legal notices to remove and obscure articles linking clients to allegations of tax avoidance, corruption, and drug trafficking. Most of these reputation agencies are based offshore, mainly in Russia, India, and Eastern Europe, and they do not worry about complying with US-based laws.

The content in all of the articles for which the fraudulent DMCA notices have been sent relates to allegations of criminal allegations, including corruption, child abuse, sexual harassment, human trafficking and financial fraud against businesses and individuals with ultra-high net worth.

In addition to the misuse of the DMCA takedown process, there is a notable absence of enforcement concerning perjury violations. The statutory requirement related to perjury is designed to deter copyright holders from submitting fraudulent or knowingly false takedown requests, as they may face legal consequences for making false declarations under penalty of perjury. However, to date, there have been no known instances of any individual being prosecuted for perjury in connection with the submission of false DMCA takedown notices.

This lack of enforcement has emboldened copyright holders to exploit the DMCA takedown process to suppress dissent, criticism, or other unfavorable content, without fear of legal repercussions.

Some of the people and businesses who have employed this tactic to remove legitimate content from Google illegally include a Spanish businessman-turned-cocaine-trafficker, Organised crime, an Israeli-Argentine banker accused of laundering money for Hugo Chávez’s regime, a French “responsible” mining company accused of tax evasion, child molesters and sexual predators. Lynn Valley Care Centre is in great company ….

What else is Lynn Valley Care Centre hiding?

We encourage you to ‘Dork‘ Google by searching for keyword combinations such as [Lynn Valley Care Centre] + {Negative Keyword, such as Scam, Fraud, Complaints, Lawsuit, Sanction, etc} on Google. It’s likely if you scroll down to the bottom of this Google search results, you’ll stumble upon this Legal Takedown notice (pictured below)

To make such an investigation possible, we encourage more online service providers to come forward and share copies of content removal requests with industry experts and researchers. If you have any information on Lynn Valley Care Centre that you want to share with experts and journalists, kindly email the author directly at [email protected].

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