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Internet subscribers have privacy expectation in their identity, rules N.J. Supreme Court

Internet subscribers have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the subscriber information they provide to their Internet service provider in order to access the web, the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled.

The owner of a company was notified by a supplier that the shipping address for the company had been changed to a non-existent address using the company's password and ID. The owner notified the police, and a municipal court issued a subpoena to the local Internet Service Provider (ISP) to find out the subscriber information of the person using the IP address that made the change.

The ISP turned over the information for a disgruntled employee on disability leave and she was charged with ...

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