Google subpoenaed for journalists’ IP addresses

[@torproject] shared a link (on identi.ca and Twitter) to an unsettling Wikileaks post…

A California court has issued a subpoena demanding Google reveal the IP addresses of journalists writing for a corruption busting journal from the Caribbean.
The August 28 subpoena, issued by the Superior Court, County of Santa Clara, as part of a “libel tourism” action taken by non-US property developers, demands detailed information about the operators of “[email protected]”. The account is the main email address of the TCI Journal, the most influential journal covering the Turks & Caicos Islands. The Islands are a tourist mecca and tax haven in the Caribbean sea, and until August 14 were an independent British protectorate.

Full article (wikileaks.org)

(This story was also covered over at NewsCred and syndicated, via ReadWriteWeb, at USA Today)

For those of you with short-term memories (or minds that block out “the bad things”), this isn’t the first time Google’s been slapped the big SUBP — DoJ anyone? How about Rhino Sports v. Sport Court? Or maybe even the deleted email debacle?

Now would be a good time to remind everyone to use (and support) The Tor Project. Stay safe!

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Posted by Zach Lanier on August 31, 2009. Filed under Legal Aspects,News,Privacy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.