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Congratulations! You've Been Subpoenaed

Posted by timothy on from the wait-for-the-eyescan dept.

Edmond Spidre writes: "The Washington Post has an interesting article about an organization called CyberSLAPP, which is apparently urging ISPs to provide notification when their customer details are being subpoenaed. Its interesting to note that according to the article AOL appears to have a decent policy already in place."

15 comments

  1. Interesting by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 3, Funny

    What is Slashdot's policy?

    1. Re:Interesting by ObviousGuy · · Score: 3, Informative

      Cave when faced with possible lawsuits.

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  2. Re:A typical slashdot day by poopbot by ThorGod · · Score: 1

    Mod this man down!

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  3. AOL has a policy, eh? by nuggetman · · Score: 1

    Its interesting to note that according to the article AOL appears to have a decent policy already in place.

    IIRC, the numerous times the CRIS holes had been opened up and hundreds of customer names and credit card numbers compromised, AOL lied out their asses and denied, denied, denied.

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    1. Re:AOL has a policy, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      AOL's policy is to notify members when a subpoena is issued for a civil matter regarding their account or "PII" ("Personally Identifying Information," aka name, address, phone number). If the subpoena relates to a criminal matter, the member is not notified, for obvious reasons.

  4. so? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    are we notified when slashdot editors look at our IPs to see what troll accounts go with what legitimate ones? This is posted AC, but the editors know my account. Am I notified if they look at it?

  5. Re:policy by King+of+the+World · · Score: 1
    Prove it.

    (I mean, I know about deleting the copyrighted material, but as for the logs - prove it)

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  6. Yahoo! by www.sorehands.com · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Yahoo has a decent policy too.

    They will provide 15 days notice to the user. If the user does not files a motion to quash during that period, Yahoo will provide the information. Of course, in that way, Yahoo usually does not have appear. This way, you don't need to file an emergency motion as Yahoo will await the outcome of the outstanding order.

    But, with the data Yahoo, you will have to locate the ISP and subpeona them in many cases as Yahoo may not have valid information.

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  7. look at the bottom by unformed · · Score: 2

    at that link entitled 'privacy'

  8. It makes perfect sense by PacoTaco · · Score: 2

    AOL's subpoena policy is just a defense against customer lawsuits. The slant of the article makes it sound like they actually care about their users, but that's doubtful.

  9. new anti-terror leg affect this? by CrazyDwarf · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know if the legislation that was passed this past year taking away civil liberties under the guise of "Terror Legislation" affects this? Do they actually have to subpeona your information now? Is subpeona the right word? I thought a subpeona is what they issued you to get you to appear in court.

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