TorrentFreak » voss https://torrentfreak.com Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:38:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 Privacy Prevails: German ISP Forced To Delete IP Logs https://torrentfreak.com/privacy-prevails-german-isp-forced-to-delete-ip-logs/ https://torrentfreak.com/privacy-prevails-german-isp-forced-to-delete-ip-logs/#comments Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:00:23 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/privacy-prevails-german-isp-forced-to-delete-ip-logs/ Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing and anonymous VPN services.

]]> t-onlineThe decision (German) does not mean that T-Online is now obliged to delete all their IP-logs, the customers first need to complain. But, if they ask T-Online to delete their IP-logs, the ISP has no other choice than to comply. A lawyer from Frankfurt already sketched a sample letter to make this process easier.

The court ruling is the result of a case that was initiated by Holger Voss, a 33 year old man from Münster. Voss was sued for making a sarcastic comment in an Internet forum back in 2002.

After the district court and the regional court, now the federal appeal court decided that T-Online has no right to store the IP-logs without a legal reason. This ruling can be considered as a huge breakthrough, and it is good to see that at least some countries still value privacy.

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