Internet Service Providers Increasingly Asked to Turn Over Customer Data
Who is sending threatening e-mail to a teenager? Who is saying disparaging things about a company on an Internet message board? These questions, and many more like them, are asked every day of the companies that provide Internet service and run Web sites. And even though these companies promise to protect the privacy of their users, they routinely hand over the most intimate information in response to legal demands from criminal investigators and lawyers fighting civil cases.
Increasingly, Internet's Data Trail Leads to Court, New York Times, February 4, 2006.
