Comcast's Win Encourages ISPs To Fight User-Data Requests

By Allison Grande ( June 18, 2014, 4:11 PM EDT) -- An Illinois appeals court recently freed Comcast Cable Communications LLC from having to reveal users' identities to an Internet pornography provider trying to pin them for computer fraud, a ruling likely to embolden service providers to dispute user-data requests that they believe to be mere fishing expeditions for evidence of wrongdoing. . . .

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