[1] Weatherhead played a significant role in Operation Payback, a series of cyberattacks conducted by Anonymous against various organizations because the hackers "did not agree with their views.
Operation Avenge Assange focused on disrupting PayPal and other payment sites that despite transferring funds indiscriminately for other organisations, including neonazi organisations, would not process transfers to the Wau Holland Foundation, which raises funds for WikiLeaks, after attention shifted from companies involved in digital rights.
[4] In January 2013, Weatherhead was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his part in the denial-of-service attacks on PayPal, Visa and MasterCard in December 2010.
[2] After Weatherhead completed his sentence he went on to work for Human Rights charity Privacy International.
[6] Weatherhead is notable for his advocacy relating to targeted advertising[7][8] and data protection[9] Following on from Human Rights Watch (and Others) v The United Kingdom[10] at the European Court of Human Rights, Weatherhead who was a party to that case was awarded compensation and an apology from the British Government for being unlawfully spyed on, in violation of his Article 8 rights[11]