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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slight paranoia: 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 | techPresident
US subpoenas Twitter for accounts of two Wikileaks volunteers - Boing Boing
By Xeni Jardin at 5:31 pm Friday, Jan 7Wikileaks 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. The US District Court in Virginia said it wanted information including user names, addresses, connection records, telephone numbers and payment details.
BBC News - 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 - NYTimes.com
Ministers must 'wise up not clam up' after WikiLeaks disclosures | Politics | The Guardian
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.
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:
What the Government Might Be After with Its Twitter Subpoena | Emptywheel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. court has ordered Twitter to hand over details of the accounts of WikiLeaks and several supporters as part of a criminal investigation into the release of hundreds of thousands of confidential documents.
U.S. orders Twitter to hand over WikiLeaks records | Reuters
U.S. Subpoenas Twitter Accounts of WikiLeaks Figures - NYTimes.com
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. It was denounced by WikiLeaks, which has so far made public only about 1 percent of the quarter-million confidential diplomatic cables in its possession but has threatened to post them all on the Web if criminal charges are brought. Dozens of Pentagon and State Department officials have worked for months to assess the damage done to American diplomatic and military operations by the disclosures.Kettling Wikileaks
The Anonymous web protests are the Internet equivalent of a mass demonstration. It's a mistake to call them hacking (playful cleverness) or cracking (security breaking).WikiLeaks has demanded that Google and Facebook unseal any US subpoenas they may have received after it emerged that a court in Virginia had ordered Twitter secretly to hand over details of accounts and use of the micro-blogging site by five figures associated with the group, including Julian Assange.