[This is insanely silly. Intentia (the plaintiff) did not take the proper, trivial technical precautions and instead put the info up on the web at a predictable URL. Embarrassed at its lack of technical clue, it seeks to invoke the law instead -- in a move that would set a terrible precedent. --Declan] --- LAWSUIT ALLEGES SNOOPING ON PUBLIC WEB PAGES A small technology company in Sweden has filed a lawsuit alleging that Reuters violated the law when it obtained and published information from an earnings report on the Web. The data were on a Web page accessible by anyone who entered the correct URL. The Web page, though, was not linked from elsewhere on the company's site, according to the company. A spokesman from the company said the lawsuit could have important implications about what is considered public versus private information. If the court rules that the information Reuters obtained was public, he said, then potentially everything on a company's Web server could be considered public. Associated Press, 28 October 2002 News coverage: http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000024985,20269450,00.htm http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,4386,151717,00.html http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1035389344290 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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