The Regional Court in Wrocław in its judgment of 2 February 2012 case file IX Nc 1850/11 held that that there was no reason to accept the view that electronic services providers are required to bear costs for rendering information on given data to the state authorities for the needs of legal proceedings carried on by them. Therefore, the court ruled that the Police has to pay to the company that operates social-networking site for gathering and processing requested data and information, according to the specifiaction that was received from the Police.

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