[Foundation-l] Abuse filter
Mark Williamson
node.ue at gmail.com
Fri Mar 27 15:21:54 UTC 2009
And what is "every other countries"? I'm not a lawyer, but even if you
are, have you done a legal study of all the countries on earth,
because there are a lot.
skype: node.ue
2009/3/27 John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no>:
> Basically all actions against users given information in such a log.
> Contacting the ISP is a valid question, I believe contacting the ISP
> about completed actions are legal in most jurisdictions, contacting them
> about uncompleted actions is not. In the US it is legal to act on
> uncompleted actions after provocations (aka the perpetrators
> intentions), that is not legal in every other countries (eg quite few
> countries).
>
> As I see it, all problems comes from public or partly public logging
> actions that are now in a private context.
>
> Thomas Dalton skrev:
>> 2009/3/25 John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no>:
>>> In Norway it is legal to log such actions for the administration of the
>>> system, but as soon as it is used for actions against the users it would
>>> need a license (konsesjon) to handle such information.
>>
>> What kind of action against users are you thinking of? All we're
>> likely to do is block them, which would be administering the system.
>> Are you suggesting that contacting their ISP to report abuse would be
>> problematic? (That's the only other action I can think of.)
>>
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