Jason Levine
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join:2001-07-13
USA
| reply to Lazlow
Re: Belgium fines Yahoo...
Beyond the "no presence in Belgium" issue, there's another issue. The prosecutor requested this data VIA E-MAIL!! If we accept this ruling, then any website available in a country (pretty much any website period) can be sent an e-mail requesting data that can turn into a fine if they ignore it. So I, as a webmaster, would need to field requests for data from China, Russia, France, Italy, etc.
And, of course, if people start abiding by these "give me your data" e-mails, this will be a scammer's dream. "Hi, I'm a Federal Prosecutor in Nigeria. Due to a criminal case in progress, I need all of the data (including passwords, who they e-mailed, etc) for the following users: [list of users]. If you fail to comply within three days, you will be fined $1 million per user."
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-Jason Levine
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