Speech Not Free When Information is Confidential

A grocer is suing an individual who allegedly posted trade secrets on a Yahoo message board. Yahoo has been subpeonaed to release the writer\’s identity. According to the article, \”Yahoo, by law, must notify the person who wrote the comments, and then that person has an opportunity to go to court to seek an injunction blocking their identification. If that person does not respond, Yahoo would turn over the information.\” When someone calls the disclosed information \”confidential,\” \”proprietary,\” or \”secret,\” First Amendment rules and protections don\’t apply. No word from the EFF on this one yet. more… from NewsBytes