Lawsuit Against Baidu and HiChina Fails (repost)

Pacific Epoch has the results from the privacy lawsuit against Baidu and HiChina:

Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU) and Chinese domain name registrar HiChina (www.net.cn) were found not guilty in their lawsuit against a Hangzhou lawyer surnamed Guo in the Beijing Haidian District People’s Court on January 9, reports ChinaByte. The court ruled in favor of the defendants citing a lack of evidence that they delayed deletion of Baidu links to Guo’s personal email, sent through HiChina. Last December, Guo sued the companies for RMB1 million in emotional damages.

It was billed as the first privacy lawsuit in China.

It’s not clear how this actually happened, probably some foul up with a web interface for email. It’s important to remember that Mr. Guo had sent emails to a company that had its email hosted by HiChina. It was someone else’s email box that was indexed by Baidu.

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