coffee spilled on her lap. anonymously rating companies on-line, have you ever done that? a poor decision could change the rules. diane macedo joins us with more on that. virginia appeals court ruled the site must reveal the identities of critical reviews of a carpet cleaning business. they argued the critiques were fraudulent because the users posting them under the description of the service they received didn t match up with the customer data base. they issued a subpoena for the names of 7 of the anonymous critics. they say yelp has to comply. he writes the opinion generally a yeltp review is protected because it s an opinion about a business they patronized. they can express themselves without the fear that anonymity will be pierced. it goes on to say the first amendment does not protect the
caught up with the kind of threats we face in cyberspace. take a look what s happened inside of our borders the last couple of days. we ve got a county in colorado where the sheriff s department has lost massive amounts of data regarding informants and those types of things. you ve got a major retail pharmacy change that has lost massive amounts of information on its customer data base and you know, the legal frame work has to catch up. cyberspace is going to be is a huge threat on a number of levels from a personal level to what we ve seen with wikileaks on a national security level. congressman quickly, do we know who funds wikileaks? no, woo we don t. this clearly is not a media outlet. they ve got a political agenda. we ought to find out who funds it and what their agenda is. great to have you back on the show over the course of the next year as we talk about