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UK Judge Orders Wikipedia To Reveal User's Identity

BoxRec writes with this excerpt from The Daily Mail: "A mother trying to identify a blackmailer who posted 'sensitive' details about her child on Wikipedia has won the right to find out who edited her entry. In the first case of its kind, a High Court judge has ordered the online encyclopedia's parent company to disclose the IP address of one of its registered users."

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  1. Somebody had to add it by kwiqsilver · · Score: 1, Offtopic
  2. Re:Wow... by nhytefall · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wish I had mod points to mod you up. Thank you for putting things in perspective.

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  3. Privacy doesn't exsit on the web by gamecrusader · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sorry website/ connection = for almost everyone and everything "sensitive data" will end up basically on an international public Auction anyone could buy or look at it can happen to everyone, no way to know where the source came because it could of come thousands of different places

    go on a website probably that site will sell what ever you put on it
    go into a chatroom its the persons problem if someone knows the username of a person or it "accidently" comes out its public
    become a game/ website member = what ever went on application could be fair game websites and programs will take personal info everyone should know that
    viruses ,spyware ,key loggers everyone knows what it can do

    Rule number 1 Everyone should know this by now its kind obvious. If you don't want sensitive data to be accessed or known on the web don't even bother with a unsecure wifi connection, or internet connection, or even web cafe. Do even type it on a computer which isn't secure.

  4. "international data auction" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "The international world web pricacy auction"
    "Sources virtually every website a person goes on" Yes this happens GET OVER IT!

    Date: 24 hours a day 7 days a week 375 days a year for the total exsitance of the world wide web

    Bidders "unkown"

    Todays auction, "personal information"
    Bidders, every comany, the media, people

    This is what goes on every single day

    Thank the modern society, where the term privacy well doesn't really exsist, again stated GET OVER IT!!!!!

    If you wish to prevent this, join hundres of millions of others, in other words "its going to happen nothing going to stop it"
      go back to paper and pencil, and incinerate the papers after your done as people collect data through your trash or just keep it in your head if you wish it not to get out, until technology creates brain scanners which companies can use to scan your brain and know what your thinking or what you remeber its going to happen,

    STOP CRYING AND GET OVER IT!!!!!
    thats life in our modern world.

    Have a nice day

  5. Re:remedial intellectual charity: by tjstork · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    a fundamentalist is someone who adheres to a concept WITHOUT EXCEPTION: free speech, the free market, the infallibility of the bible/ quran/ torah,

    Add: The environment. Peace.

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  6. Re:it's not whistleblowing, its blackmail by malkavian · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Turn round to your significant other before a really important romantic evening, and say "Yes, your ass looks big in that, no, the makeup doesn't hide the wrinkles at the corners or your eyes and the cut of the dress makes you look pregnant."
    There, you have your honest and open world. Do you want to live in it?