How about the privacy laws in Italy - check what just happened to some Google Execs...
This could end up as a great "get rich quick" scheme for the lawyers.
Sorry to come on as a dampener but this is risky territory.
Things like this seem to give a small minority of people anywhere on the globe the ability to basicaly terrorize and shake down companies and people in our industry.
I beleive that some kind of international free-harbor provision would be benificial to the internet and allow it to continue to grow freely.
I've had several very successful websites and I was always dealing with people and companies trying to "shake me down." I think it's just part of the game.
The amount of information in the more than 1 million reviews that would be considered "private" is less than what you would already find through available avenues such as a Google search or even public records.
Fortunately, I don't live in the UK, so their laws don't apply to me, even if they say they do.
It's more generally called "forum shopping" but specfically it would be "libel tourism".
http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?stor... might open your eyes a little: >The most famous example is the case of Rachel Ehrenfeld, an American who wrote a book about the funding of Islamic terrorism. It sold a mere 23 copies in Britain, over the internet. But a Saudi businessman sued her in a London court and was awarded over £100,000 ($160,000).
>> Despite its track record of successfully defending cases brought in U.S. courts, in July 2003 a default judgment was entered against the site in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court High Court of Justice for EC$27,100,932.00.[4] The award, made in Eastern Caribbean currency rather than U.S. dollars, has not been recognized or enforced by any U.S. Court.