http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View&c=Article&cid=ZZZ5C1JRPQC&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0&s=News&ExpIgnore=true&showsummary=0 Cable-Based Internet Provider Cannot Reveal Federal Probe Tom Perrotta New York Law Journal August 23, 2001 In an apparent case of first impression, a district court has ordered a cable company to provide federal investigators with private details about one of its Internet subscribers without informing the subscriber. The ruling, handed down by U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, comes amidst much debate over the scope of the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984. The decision will be published Monday. In Re Application of the United States of America for an Order Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §2703(d), 01 Mag. 1389, concerns the government's request for information about a subscriber to Cablevision Systems Corp.'s Optimum Online Internet service. The subscriber, the government claimed, may be associated with unspecified criminal activity currently under investigation. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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