L'Hebdo appeared despite super provisional measures
Today, Thursday, the weekly newspaper in western Switzerland was published despite super provisional measures. The reason for this was that the order arrived too late.
An article about the Internet comparison service Comparis.ch was decisive for the court-ordered measure. In connection with comparisons of health insurance premiums apparently tried to hack the website of the Federal Office of Public Health FOPH, as the SDA writes on Thursday. The instruction by mail arrived only on Wednesday afternoon, while L'Hebdo was already printed in the night to Wednesday. Daniel Pillard, director for French-speaking Switzerland at media company Ringier, said this, according to SDA. He thus confirmed information from the French-speaking Swiss television station RTS.
According to Pillard, the article was then deleted from the magazine's website. L'Hebdo is relaxed about the further legal disputes.
Comparis vehemently rejects accusations
According to SDA, the Internet comparison service Comparis.ch on Thursday rejected all accusations of piracy and disreputable behavior on the Internet. Because Ringier had disregarded a decision of the Vaud cantonal court, Comparis.ch will consider further legal steps. The accusations are about the procurement of health insurance premiums about a year ago. In today's edition, the weekly magazine L'Hebdo accuses Comparis.ch of unlawfully using this data on the website of the Federal Office of Public Health FOPH.
Comparis.ch vehemently rejects these accusations, according to SDA. The company had used the publicly accessible data of the FOPH with a common and, according to the Federal Court, legal method, the so-called crawling. The FOPH is also not accusing Comparis.ch of any criminal activity. This technique is used in every search engine. The aim was to provide consumers with a comprehensive overview as quickly as possible. Therefore, Comparis.ch also wanted to prevent the publication of the L'Hebdo issue in question with a super provisional injunction.
Now Comparis.ch wants to examine further legal steps, after Ringier had disregarded the super provisional injunction and had not stopped the publication.
