<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 14px; "><div>I agree with John Morris,</div><div><br></div>"It's outrageous that the bank asked for this, and it's outrageous that the court granted it," says John Morris, general counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology.</span><br>
<br><div>who says that, that info is attached to that gmail account and cannot be transfered? so what happens if the person is a malicious person and has copied the info elsewhere? what if the guy thought of it as a spam mail and thats why he never responded? what if.....? what if......?</div>
<div><br></div><div>this judge,obvoiusly is not e-conversant....coz closing an email account,does not solve the case.</div><div><br></div><div>this is very interesting.....and we are yet to see more laughable... judgments.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Kind Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blongwe@gmail.com">blongwe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br><div class="gmail_quote">Interesting debate on this issue.....<br><br>Brian<div><div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div>--Judge Orders Google to Deactivate Account<br>(September 24 & 28,
2009)<br>A US District Court Judge in California has ordered Google to
deactivate<br>the Gmail account of a user who was accidentally sent confidential
bank<br>information. An employee of Wyoming-based Rocky Mountain Bank sent
the<br>data to the account in error; the data include names, Social
Security<br>Numbers (SSNs) and loan information of more than 1,300 bank
customers.<br>Upon recognizing the mistake, the bank sent another email to the
same<br>address, requesting that the recipient destroy the previous email
and<br>contact Rocky Mountain Bank. After receiving no reply, the bank
asked<br>Google for information about the account holder. Google said that
it<br>would not surrender any information without a court order. The
judge's<br>order is controversial because it appears to violate the
account<br>holder's First Amendment rights. Additionally, deactivating
an<br>individual's Gmail account could have far-reaching effects.<br><a>http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=114264</a><br><a>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/28/google_rocky_mountain_bank_suit_rollls_on/</a><br>
[Editor's
Note (Northcutt): I had to read this, drink a cup of hot tea,<br>and read it
again to comprehend how significant this case is. Please<br>take the time to
read the story. There are a couple of issues here. One<br>is that the legal
system follows technology by some number of years.<br>Looking backward five
years, you can sort of see Judge Ware's point of<br>view, "It is just an email
account, the person can get another one."<br>Looking forward two or three years,
in the words of Charlene Li, "In the<br>future, two pieces of information will
identify you, your email address<br>and your mobile phone number". Bottom line,
Judge Ware made a bad call.]<br></div></div>
<br></div><br></div></div><font color="#888888">-- <br>Brian Munyao Longwe<br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:blongwe@gmail.com" target="_blank">blongwe@gmail.com</a><br>cell: + 254 722 518 744<br>blog : <a href="http://zinjlog.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://zinjlog.blogspot.com</a><br>
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</font></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Brian Munyao Longwe<br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:blongwe@gmail.com" target="_blank">blongwe@gmail.com</a><br>cell: + 254 722 518 744<br>blog : <a href="http://zinjlog.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://zinjlog.blogspot.com</a><br>
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