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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."

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

    at that link entitled 'privacy'

  4. 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.