A Beijing court yesterday(i.e. 7th of December 2007) heard a lawsuit by a man demanding 1 million yuan in damages from mainland search engine giant Baidu.com and an e-mail service provider for leaking contents of his personal e-mails, Xinhua reported yesterday.
The case was supposed to be the first on the mainland in which a company had been sued for leaking personal information. Beijing Haidian District Court was told yesterday that Guo Li, a lawyer in Hangzhou of Zhejiang province found in August last year that Baidu had provided a link to his personal e-mail box and viewers could freely read the full content of an attached file in the e-mail by using a function provided by the search engine. Mr. Guo complained to Baidu and the e-mail host, but it took a month for the link to be removed, the report said.
The lawyer argued that e-mail correspondence should be protected by law and his rights had been violated. He claimed 1 million yuan in psychological damages. (By Zhuang Pinghui)
Published on South China Morning Post dated 8th of December 2007
With minor adjustments by Jason Zhang
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