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N.J. Court Requires Subpoena For Internet Subscriber RecordsFiled at 4:10 p.m. ET NEWARK, N.J. (AP) Internet service providers must not release personal information about users in New Jersey without a valid subpoena, even to police, the states highest court ruled Monday. New Jerseys Supreme Court found that the states constitution gives greater protection against unreasonable searches and seizures than the U.S. Constitution. The court ruled that Internet providers should not disclose private information to anyone without a subpoena. A Washington lawyer who handles Internet litigation, Megan E. Gray, said the ruling seems to be consistent with a trend nationwide, but not a strong trend. Its contrary to what is happening with rights of privacy at the federal level, Gray said. But its all over the board for the states, with a mild trend toward protecting this information. Grayson Barber, a lawyer representing the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, among other groups that filed friend-of-the-court briefs in the case, said it was the first ruling in the nation to recognize a reasonable expectation of privacy for Internet users. The reality is that people do expect a measure of privacy when they use the Internet, Barber said. The 7-0 ruling upheld lower court decisions that restricted police from obtaining the identity of a Cape May County woman accused of retaliating in 2004 against her boss after an argument by changing her employers access codes to a suppliers Web site. Police obtained the womans identity through her Internet provider, Comcast Corp., by tracing an Internet fingerprint left by her computer. The fingerprint consisted of an Internet protocol address, often called an IP address, that could be identified only by Comcast. Police obtained a subpoena for the data from a municipal court, but higher courts said a grand jury subpoena was necessary because an indictable offense was at issue. Police must seek a criminal grand jury subpoena to get such information, the court found. And it said the womans 2005 indictment on a charge of theft by computer cannot stand unless prosecutors have enough proof without the evidence, now suppressed, that they got from Comcast without having the right subpoena. Prosecutors can resume their pursuit of the information. Suppression under the circumstances present here does not mean that the evidence is lost in its entirety. Comcasts records existed independently of the faulty process the police followed, Chief Justice Stuart Rabner wrote for the unanimous court. And, unlike a confession coerced from a defendant in violation of her constitutional rights, the record does not suggest that police conduct in this case in any way affected the records Comcast kept. Cape May County Prosecutor Robert L. Taylor said his office will seek a grand jury subpoena and a new indictment. On the Net: Court ruling: http://tinyurl.com/5yyz25 Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationMicrosoft Opens Game Development...Gates sees next Windows ’sometime’ in next year... Mozilla’s Prism Project Blends Web and Desktop... Dell on the Rebound?... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - N.J. Court Requires Subpoena For Internet Subscriber Records |
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