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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. can Nam Tai actually do this? by wrax · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder what the comments were that caused Nam Tai to sue AOL for the identity of their user. Unless anyone gave away information that was confidential to the company and that could affect their stock prices or proprietary designs i don't see why they could be sued for speaking freely on the net. i remember slashdot running a story some time ago about microsoft doing something like this...i can't remember if they got away with it though. does anyone have any more information or a legal opinion on wheather or not this is actually legal for companies to do.