Moldovan Intelligence Service demands IPs of Internet forum members

Moldovan website UniMedia.md has refused to disclose the IPs of several users who posted anti-communist comments. UniMedia.md representatives said the IPs are stocked in the database for 10 days only and thus it cannot reveal any information between January 20 to April 14, 2008. A local court ruled that website representatives should disclose the requested information to the Moldovian secret service.

According to official data, the prosecutor pressured Unimedia to reveal the information in order to complete an operational investigation in an official check file opened by Intelligence services on January 15, 2008.

New Media Group, the company which holds the website said that this decision should trigger the public opinion’s attention as the Intelligence Service, together with a local court judge want to breach the right for private personal data.