The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled an Estonian court was correct when it fined Delfi in a case involving anonymous postings on the news website, Wired reports. Joe McNamee, executive director for European Digital Rights, said, "This baffling logic now appears to render it effectively impossible for an online publication to allow comments without positive identification of the end users … So much for the human right to privacy in the Convention. This will directly undermine individuals' rights to free speech and indirectly undermine their right to privacy.” Lawyers in the UK, however, suggest if the original case had been held there, “the outcome would have been very different,” the report states.
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