School Board Tries To Force Newspapers To Reveal Anonymous Onlin...

Courtesy Techdirt  Fri, 10/23/2009 - 19:00

Paul Alan Levy writes in to let us know about how a New Jersey School Board is trying to get around the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which limits what information the government can get about online speakers, in order to find out the identity of some anonymous commenters on a series of newspaper stories about teachers in the district using questionable diploma mills to get "degrees" and qualify for higher salaries.

I contacted Marc Zitomer , the...


 

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