[ga] On the privacy front: EU Court: ISPs Don't Have to Surrender Customer ID in Civil Cases

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  A kink in the anti-privacy/IPC constituency's mantra perhaps?

See:http://euobserver.com/9/25559
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2008-01-29

EU Court: ISPs Don't Have to Surrender Customer ID in Civil Cases
(January 29, 2008)
The European Court of Justice has ruled that Internet service providers
(ISPs) do not have to disclose the identities of their customers who
download copyrighted files in civil cases.  ISPs could be required to
disclose names in criminal cases.  The ruling came in response to a
complaint from Spanish record trade industry association Promusicae
against Spanish ISP Telefonica to obtain the identities of its 
customers who traded files on KaZaA.

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