Feds Subpoena Twitter acct Info
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Twitter spying against EU law
The Department of Justice issued Twitter a subpoena for access to the accounts of Julian Assange and several others in relation to its investigation of the whistle-blower organization, which released roughly 2,000 classified cables.
Social Media and Subpoenas: The Loophole That Puts Journalistic Sources at Risk
Iceland protest against US
Yesterday, the Senate held a hearing on proposed updates to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act , the landmark 1986 legislation that governs the protections citizens have when they communicate using the Internet or cellphones.
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Thoughts on the DOJ wikileaks/twitter court order
The world's media has jumped on the news that the US Department of Justice has sought, and obtained a court order seeking to compel Twitter to reveal account information associated with several of its users who are associated with Wikileaks.There's a hint of poetry in the fact that Birgitta Jónsdóttir needed only a tweet to let the world know instantly that the U.S.
Twitter, and Reacting to DOJ's Wikileaks Court Order
8 January 2011 Last updated at 13:09 ET Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is currently fighting extradition from the UK to Sweden The US government has subpoenaed the social networking site Twitter for personal details of people connected to Wikileaks, court documents show.
US wants Twitter details of Wikileaks activists
The subpoena is the first public evidence of a criminal investigation, announced last month by Attorney General , that has been urged on by members of Congress of both parties but is fraught with legal and political difficulties for the Obama administration.
U.S. Subpoenas Twitter Over WikiLeaks Supporters
Ministers must 'wise up not clam up' after WikiLeaks disclosures | Politics
Civil servants and ministers need to 'be more proactive' in releasing information, Christopher Graham said. Photograph: Chris Young/PA The government should take the WikiLeaks revelations as a lesson that civil servants and ministers can no longer assume they operate in private, and "wise up" to a world where any official communication could be made public, according to the information commissioner.
The subpoena is the first public evidence of a criminal investigation, announced last month by Attorney General , that has been urged on by members of Congress of both parties but is fraught with legal and political difficulties for the Obama administration.
U.S. Subpoenas Twitter Over WikiLeaks Supporters
After a member of Iceland’s Parliament and former Wikileaks volunteer, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, revealed on Twitter yesterday that Twitter has been subpoenaed for details on her Twitter account, Glenn got a copy of the subpoena . The subpoena was first submitted to Twitter on December 14, and asked for account information for six people as well as any account associated with Wikileaks, going back to November 1, 2009. Of particular note, they ask for: