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[privacy] Judge: Gov't Can't ID Online Book Buyers
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:25:38 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via CBS News (AP). [snip] U.S. prosecutors have withdrawn a subpoena seeking the identities of thousands of people who bought used books through online retailer Amazon.com Inc., newly unsealed court records show. The withdrawal came after a judge ruled the customers have a right to keep their reading habits from the government. "The (subpoena's) chilling effect on expressive e-commerce would frost keyboards across America," U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Crocker wrote in a June ruling. "Well-founded or not, rumors of an Orwellian federal criminal investigation into the reading habits of Amazon's customers could frighten countless potential customers into canceling planned online book purchases," the judge wrote in a ruling he unsealed last week. [snip] More: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/27/tech/main3544247.shtml - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHTN+yq1pz9mNUZTMRAhCPAJ0bWr+rwhc2qMw4Rg2YU+TO2ZPlmwCdEOE0 kzfswOiDgSz/lgRSm59rb1k= =sxgO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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