Congratulations! You've Been Subpoenaed

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."

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Re:AOL has a policy, eh?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.