New Jersey Says ISPs Need A Subpoena To Give Up Subscriber Info
from the it-really-needed-a-decision? dept
A bunch of folks have sent in the link about the New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that ISPs need a valid subpoena to hand over private info on your account to anyone -- including the police. While people are rightfully cheering this on as an excellent decision, what's troubling is the idea that anyone has felt otherwise. ISPs (and other service providers) shouldn't be handing out your private data without a valid legal reason no matter what -- and that should not have required a legal decision to make clear.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Except...
Obviously if the police coerced someone into revealing data that people had an expectation would remain private, that would be different. But that's not what happened in this case. Not to mention that this only affects New Jersey.
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This is WHY trials exist, especially for things like this. If you keep saying it's outrageous that such a trial is even occurring, one might start thinking you were a fool. The trials are necessary. They're supposed to send a clear message to silly people. because 50% of the population is silly, 25% is massively foolish, and 25% is sage.
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