Northwest Privacy Lawsuit Dismissed

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 16, 2004 @03:33AM from the oh-you-didn't-read-that-it's-too-small dept.

dritan writes "News.com is reporting that a judge has tossed out a privacy lawsuit against Northwest airlines. The plaintiffs claimed that their privacy was violated when Northwest gave their information to the government. From the judge: 'Although Northwest had a privacy policy for information included on the Web site, plaintiffs do not contend that they actually read the privacy policy prior to providing Northwest with their personal information. Thus, plaintiffs' expectation of privacy was low.' Do you always read the privacy policy?" If you haven't read a particular EULA, does that mean it doesn't apply either? Here is the Judge's order (PDF).

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Insane by mccalli · 2004-06-16 03:36 · Score: 4, Funny

By the same rationale, since they had not actually read every law book in the land their expectations of justice were low...
Cheers,
Ian
Re:Using 9/11 to justify anything? by andreMA · 2004-06-16 03:51 · Score: 4, Funny

Are we still in the wake of the terrorist attacks?
Of course we are. We've always been at war with Eurasia.
Re:Using 9/11 to justify anything? by spoonyfork · 2004-06-16 04:00 · Score: 5, Funny

The whole point of the War on Terror is to protect our system of law... letting it to start going down the slippery slope towards an opressive system is exactly the way the terrorists want to push us.

We're having a real fucking good war with Iraq, under God. Why do you hate freedom?

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