Nash Finch, a Minnesota-based grocer with an annual revenue of
over $4 billion has filed a lawsuit against an anonymous person who
allegedly posted confidential trade secrets about the company on an
internet message board administered by web portal Yahoo!
According to Nash Finch’s lawyer, Allison Chock, the person
posting the comments gave away “confidential, proprietary financial
information”. The information allegedly violates business codes and
ethics and it is believed that whoever is responsible, possibly an
employee of the company, could be liable under breach of contract.
According to Chock, the person could also face punitive damages for
misappropriating trade secrets.
Nash Finch has ordered Yahoo! to disclose the identity of the
message poster. Yahoo! must notify the individual to allow him or
her to request that the court blocks any identification. If the
person does not respond to Yahoo!, then Yahoo! must turn the
identity information over to the court.
A judge in Illinois has ruled that the operator an anti-abortion
web site must remove medical records of a woman who had experienced
post-abortion medical complications from the site. The judge stated
in a preliminary ruling that the postings constituted a violation
of her privacy.
