The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has granted MediaPost’s request for a court document with details of Google’s compliance with an order for it to deactivate a Gmail user’s account. The court ruled the district court had not made the case that the public had no right to access the report.
The dispute originated with a bank who had mistakenly sent sensitive customer data to a Gmail address and asked Google to provide information about the account holder which under the terms of its privacy policy Google refused to divulge without a court order. -db
From MediaPost, April 18, 2011, by Wendy Davis.