[109077] in Cypherpunks
CDR: Anonymous comments lead to court [yahoo]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Tue Mar 9 22:01:28 1999
From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:44:23 -0600 (CST)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
X-URL: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/wr/story.html?s=v/nm/19990309/wr/lawsuit_2.html
Tuesday March 9 3:09 AM ET
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A financial education firm said Monday it filed a
slander suit against 10 anonymous users of a bulletin board at Yahoo!
Inc., hoping to strike a blow against the spreading of rumors on the
Internet.
The federal court suit names 10 ``John Does'' as defendants, and a
lawyer for Seattle-based Wade Cook Financial Corp. (OTC BB:WADE -
news) said it may subpoena Yahoo!, a popular gateway to the Internet,
to hand over the real names of the users. Yahoo! is not a target of
the lawsuit.
The lawsuit comes as debate grows over Internet privacy, with users
fretting about how to protect their identities from prying eyes, and
companies complaining about the ease with which rumors spread over the
global computer network.
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