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AOL Loses Privacy Appeal

Posted by timothy on from the vee-vant-to-see-your-records dept.

robkill writes "The Virgina Supreme Court ruled against AOL in its appeal, on First Amendment grounds, to throw out a subpeona by Nam Tai Electronics seeking the identity of an anonymous AOL user who posted 'false and defamatory' messages on a message board. Details can be found in the News.com article."

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  1. I am so confused. by fava · · Score: 3, Funny

    Am I supposed to like AOL now? I thought they are one of the bad guys, but now they are behaving like a good guy. Next thing you know Microsoft will do the right thing and my whole secure little world will be compleatly upside down.

    I nead a drink.