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US government tells internet body to hurry the funk up on privacy

Tuesday 9th April 2019 15:07 GMT JohnFen

"Because copyright and a whole bunch of legal issues are not always criminal issues"

Even in civil cases, you can get a judge to issue a subpoena for the required information.

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