Newly unsealed court records have revealed that the U.S. government issued a subpoena to Amazon.com seeking to obtain the identities of customers purchasing books through the Amazon marketplace. The snooping attempt was blocked by U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Crocker who wrote in a recently-unsealed ruling, "Well-founded or not, rumors of an ...

Newly unsealed court records have revealed that the U.S. government issued a subpoena to Amazon.com seeking to obtain the identities of customers purchasing books through the Amazon marketplace. The snooping attempt was blocked by U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Crocker who wrote in a recently-unsealed ruling,

THE FBI has been blasted for demanding information on the reading habits of thousands of Amazon customers as part of its case against one man.The FBI subpoenaed Amazon seeking the identities of thousands of people who bought used books.[...] Judge Crocker ruled customers have a First Amendment right to keep their reading habits from the government

Federal prosecutors tried unsuccessfully to force Amazon.com to identify thousands of innocent customers who bought books online, then abandoned the idea after a judge rebuked them.In an order that was sealed but has now become public, U.S. District Judge Stephen Crocker rejected the Justice Department's subpoena

"The (subpoena's) chilling effect on expressive e-commerce would frost keyboards across America," U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Crocker wrote. Even better, prosecutors made their case anyway, without trampling on the First Amendment.

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