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Raytheon Suit against Employees Spurs Call for On-line Privacy Rules.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 1999 by Kerber, Ross
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 5 -- Internet service providers such as America Online and Microsoft Corp. offer strict assurances they will protect the privacy of your personal information.
Unless somebody asks to see it. Then things might change.
That seems to be the lesson emerging from a lawsuit filed by Raytheon Co. against 21 people the Lexington defense contractor claims posted private company information on a message board run by Yahoo Inc. on the World Wide Web.
Raytheon didn't know any more than the screen-names of the message posters when it filed the suit in February in Middlesex Superior Court, seeking damages of more than $25,000 from a group of defendants it calls "John Does."
But Yahoo provided at...
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