A short update on my lawsuit against LINE. My lawyer filed our rebuttal to LINE’s third brief on August 24, 2026, together with a statement of facts that I signed and sent back a few days later.

Reading their evidence closely, the three things LINE listed are not three separate events. They are three fields of a single record: one connection, on April 28, 2025. Their own log describes it as a Mac desktop client running macOS, connecting from an IP address in Singapore that belongs to Amazon’s cloud, with the client language set to Traditional Chinese.

None of that is me. I have never owned a Mac, and I have never even created an Apple account, so I have no device that could run LINE’s Mac app at all. My phone is an Android, my laptop ran Linux, and their languages were Japanese and English. I connected through the fibre line at my home in Japan and through my phone’s mobile line, never through a VPN, a proxy, or a cloud service. I have never set foot in Singapore, not even in transit. On April 28, 2025 I was at home.

So we make two points. The first is about the terms themselves. Every clause LINE relies on prohibits acts by the user, and the clause that lets them suspend an account applies where the customer has breached the terms, or is reasonably suspected of it. A connection made by somebody else, whatever it looked like, is not something I did.

The second is that this connection cannot have been mine. The device, the network, the country and the language all fail to match how I actually used the service, and those four things are independent of one another. They would not all happen to be wrong by coincidence. Someone other than me made that connection.

We also answered the protocol point. LINE says the connection used a protocol their official app never uses, but the very same record has their own system logging it as their Mac desktop client. And HTTP/SSL is just what a browser-based client speaks: LINE’s Chrome extension, which they were still officially offering in April 2025, would produce exactly that. On its own it shows nothing unusual.

The next hearing is on September 3, 2026.

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