New Jersey Supreme Court Rules Internet Users Have Privacy Rights
NJ.com, your source for everything New Jersey, has released a pretty good summary of a case that saw the state’s Supreme Court rule that, under the New Jersey Constitution, an Internet user has the right to privacy in the subscriber information maintained by the individual’s Internet service provider.
… The court holds that citizens have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the subscriber information they provide to Internet service providers,” the Supreme Court held. “Accordingly, the motion to suppress by Reid was properly granted because the police used a deficient municipal subpoena. Law enforcement officials can obtain subscriber information by serving a grand jury subpoena on an Internet service provider without notice to the subscriber. The state (law enforcement) may seek to reacquire the information with a proper grand jury subpoena because records of the information existed independently of the faulty process used by police, and the conduct of the police did not affect the information.
Check out the full summary by clicking here.
UPDATE! Here’s a better article on the ramifications, in my opinion.
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