US: Wine Country Internet Provider Takes On Justice Department
US: Wine Country Internet Provider Takes On Justice Department
Oct 11, 2011 6
(NYTimes) - The Obama administration has found an unlikely adversary in wine country.
Taking advantage of a 25-year-old law that governs digital privacy, the Justice Department asked a small Northern California-based Internet service provider to cough up information about one of its customers, a self-described supporter of WikiLeaks.
Santa Rosa-based Sonic.net fought back. Dane Jasper, its co-founder, said in an interview Monday that the company went to court to challenge the order, which, like similar information requests, was sealed by a federal judge and not available to the public. It won a court order to share the request for information with its client, Jacob Appelbaum. The case was first reported in The Wall Street Journal.
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