Facebook & Trolls

Story on The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jun/08/facebook-revealing-identities-cyberbullies saying Facebook forced into giving up cyberbullies identities. Further down the story and from a couple of other articles come the real reason for the court case, which by the way facebook didn't contend. Facebook as a company tries to protect itself by only giving out information that could be Personal Identifiable Information when it receives a court order, which seems reasonable otherwise they could be a lot of false challenges to Facebook and other companies including ISP's in order to gain information which the challenger could then use for malicious purposes. The good thing in this case was the lady in question managed to get the court order, now I'm not an expert on the legal workings in the UK, but she it was stated that she took action as her local police had other commitments, which I think that is the political correct way of stating the situation that they did not pursue the case for her, and the only option for her was going down the route of a private court case which probable cost her unless the law firm representing her did the case for free. Hopefully the information that has been requested, and Facebook have said they will comply with the court order and provide the information, will be enough to identify the abuser without further court actions required against ISPs and the abuser will be prosecuted.
The downside and the point I want to make is this is where there needs to be some action from the Government if the resources can't be made available to the police to deal with the problem of online abuse, is how can it be made easier and less costly for individuals to get court orders to enable ISP and Internet companies to release information in cases where they are being abused, and for this to be done quickly. As it is unlikely the police will be given sufficient resources, a possible solution would be for the creation of new body with sufficient powers that would verify an abuse claim, and then be able to get a fast track court order via judge that would sufficient for online providers and ISPs to hand over the requested information and then be able to work with the Police and the CPS to bring prosecutions. Ideally the body would be self funding, other than setting up costs, by imposing a order for costs against the abuser.