Lawsuit Against Baidu and HiChina Fails (repost)

Posted on January 18, 2008
Filed Under China Internet, China Law |

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 Peopleâ€™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 Guoâ€™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.

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