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Interview With Twitter CEO Dick Costolo | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD. Twitter has crossed the threshold from Web novelty into something substantial. Now Dick Costolo’s job is to turn it into a business–one big enough to justify the sky-high valuation investors have given the messaging company. He’ll talk to Kara Swisher about the company’s efforts to sell advertising on the service, and if we’re lucky, he’ll give us a glimpse of his improv comedy roots, too. Don’t be shy, Dick! Dick starts off by insulting Kara’s vest. “Matador casual,” he calls it. The same reason everyone else is, Dick says: To talk to industry people. Kara wants to know if Dick would like a “Twitter button” installed on phones. So how do you make that happen?

Dick: We’re assigning a product team to make sure that this happens. Kara: And you’re talking to TV people, too? Dick: Yep. That has interesting implications. But we don’t know if all of this means Twitter while you watch TV, or Twitter actually on your TV screen. Kara: Is it important for you to be on the screen? Dick: Sure! [hohoho] Subpoena. A subpoena /səˈpiːnə/ (also subpœna) is a writ by a government agency, most often a court, that has authority to compel testimony by a witness or production of evidence under a penalty for failure.

There are two common types of subpoena: subpoena ad testificandum orders a person to testify before the ordering authority or face punishment. The subpoena can also request the testimony to be given by phone or in person.subpoena duces tecum orders a person or organization to bring physical evidence before the ordering authority or face punishment. This is often used for requests to mail copies of documents to the requesting party or directly to court. Etymology[edit] The term is from the Middle English suppena and the Latin phrase sub poena meaning "under penalty".[2] The term may also be spelled "subpena".[3] The subpoena has its source in English common law and it is now used almost with universal application throughout the English common law world. Subpoena process[edit] See also[edit] DOJ subpoenas Twitter records of several WikiLeaks volunteers - WikiLeaks.

(pdf) subpoena. (updated below – Update II – Update III) Last night, Birgitta Jónsdóttir — a former WikiLeaks volunteer and current member of the Icelandic Parliament — announced (on Twitter) that she had been notified by Twitter that the DOJ had served a Subpoena demanding information “about all my tweets and more since November 1st 2009.” Several news outlets, including The Guardian, wrote about Jónsdóttir’s announcement. What hasn’t been reported is that the Subpoena served on Twitter — which is actually an Order from a federal court that the DOJ requested — seeks the same information for numerous other individuals currently or formerly associated with WikiLeaks, including Jacob Appelbaum, Rop Gonggrijp, and Julian Assange.

It also seeks the same information for Bradley Manning and for WikiLeaks’ Twitter account. The information demanded by the DOJ is sweeping in scope. I’ll have much more on the implications of this tomorrow. (pdf) Twitter_ Unsealing_Order. Twitter subpoena embedable. Iceland Review Online: Daily News from Iceland, Current Affairs, Business, Politics, Sports, Culture. Government-created climate of fear - Glenn Greenwald. One of the more eye-opening events for me of 2010 occurred in March, when I first wrote about WikiLeaks and the war the Pentagon was waging on it (as evidenced by its classified 2008 report branding the website an enemy and planning how to destroy it). At the time, few had heard of the group — it was before it had released the video of the Apache helicopter attack — but I nonetheless believed it could perform vitally important functions and thus encouraged readers to donate to it and otherwise support it.

In response, there were numerous people — via email, comments, and other means — who expressed a serious fear of doing so: they were worried that donating money to a group so disliked by the government would cause them to be placed on various lists or, worse, incur criminal liability for materially supporting a Terrorist organization. At the time, I dismissed those concerns as both ill-founded and even slightly paranoid.

So much of what the U.S. And these fears are well-justified. U.S. Twitter Subpoena Is Harassment, Lawyer Says. U.S. prosecutors’ demand that the microblogging service Twitter Inc. hand over data about users with ties to WikiLeaks amounts to harassment, said a lawyer for Julian Assange, the website’s founder. The Justice Department subpoena, approved last month in federal court and later unsealed, also violates the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable government searches, Assange’s lawyer Mark Stephens said today in a telephone interview in London. WikiLeaks is an organization that publishes leaked documents on its website.

“The Department of Justice is turning into an agent of harassment rather than an agent of law,” Stephens, of the firm Finers Stephens Innocent LLP, said. “They’re shaking the tree to see if anything drops out, but more important they are shaking down people who are supporters of WikiLeaks.” U.S. Penner declined to comment specifically on the WikiLeaks subpoena. ‘Grossly Overbroad’ December Subpoena. Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Because the Bill of Rights did not initially apply to the states, and federal criminal investigations were less common in the first century of the nation's history, there is little significant case law for the Fourth Amendment before the 20th century. The amendment was held to apply to the states in Mapp v. Ohio (1961). Under the Fourth Amendment, search and seizure (including arrest) should be limited in scope according to specific information supplied to the issuing court, usually by a law enforcement officer who has sworn by it. Fourth Amendment case law deals with three central questions: what government activities constitute "search" and "seizure"; what constitutes probable cause for these actions; and how violations of Fourth Amendment rights should be addressed. Early court decisions limited the amendment's scope to a law enforcement officer's physical intrusion onto private property, but with Katz v.

The exclusionary rule is one way the amendment is enforced. Text[edit] Probable cause. In United States criminal law, probable cause (also referred to as reasonable cause) is the standard by which an officer or agent of the law has the grounds to obtain a warrant for, or as an exception to the warrant requirements for, making an arrest or conducting a personal or property search, etc. when criminal charges are being considered. It is also used to refer to the standard to which a grand jury believes that a crime has been committed. This term comes from the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

"Probable" in this case may relate to actual statistical probability, or to a general standard of common behavior and customs. New Jersey v. Access to your Twitter DMs « |<e. Not subpoena 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.

Communications privacy law is exceedingly complex, and unfortunately, none of the legal experts who actually specialize in this area (people like Orin Kerr, Paul Ohm, Jennifer Granick and Kevin Bankston) have yet to chime in with their thoughts. As such, many commentators and journalists are completely botching their analysis of this interesting event. While I'm not a lawyer, the topic of government requests to Internet companies is the focus of my dissertation, so I'm going to try to provide a bit of useful analysis.

However, as always, I'm not a lawyer, so take this with a grain of salt. A quick introduction to the law The order to twitter It is the second part of the order that is more interesting. Reading between the lines 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A Macgillivray (amac) Alexander Macgillivray. Timothy Yip (tyip) Jeremy K. (jer) Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ("FISA" Pub.L. 95–511, 92 Stat. 1783, 50 U.S.C. ch. 36) is a United States federal law which prescribes procedures for the physical and electronic surveillance and collection of "foreign intelligence information" between "foreign powers" and "agents of foreign powers" (which may include American citizens and permanent residents suspected of espionage or terrorism).[1] The law does not apply outside the United States.

It has been repeatedly amended since the September 11 attacks. §Subsequent amendments[edit] The Act was amended in 2001 by the USA PATRIOT Act, primarily to include terrorism on behalf of groups that are not specifically backed by a foreign government. An overhaul of the bill, the Protect America Act of 2007 was signed into law on August 5, 2007.[2] It expired on February 17, 2008. The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 passed by the United States Congress on July 9, 2008.[3] §History[edit] §Scope and limits[edit] §Provisions[edit] K. Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: Search the Database. U.S. Subpoenas Twitter Account, WikiLeaks Says.

US tells Twitter to hand over WikiLeaks supporter's messages | Media. A member of parliament in Iceland who is also a former WikiLeaks volunteer says the US justice department has ordered Twitter to hand over her private messages. Birgitta Jonsdottir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, said last night on Twitter that the "USA government wants to know about all my tweets and more since november 1st 2009. Do they realize I am a member of parliament in Iceland? " She said she was starting a legal fight to stop the US getting hold of her messages, after being told by Twitter that a subpoena had been issued. She wrote: "department of justice are requesting twitter to provide the info – I got 10 days to stop it via legal process before twitter hands it over. " She said the justice department was "just sending a message and of course they are asking for a lot more than just my tweets.

" Jonsdottir said she was demanding a meeting with the US ambassador to Iceland. "The justice department has gone completely over the top. " "It's not just about my information. Iceland summons US envoy over demand for MP's Twitter details | World news. The American ambassador to Iceland has been summoned to explain why US officials are trying to access the Twitter account of an Icelandic MP and former WikiLeaks collaborator.

Birgitta Jónsdóttir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, revealed last week that the US justice department had asked Twitter to hand over her information. The US authorities are trying to build a criminal case against the website after its huge leaks of classified US information. "[It is] very serious that a foreign state, the United States, demands such personal information of an Icelandic person, an elected official," the interior minister, Ogmundur Jonasson, told Icelandic broadcaster RUV. "This is even more serious when put [in] perspective and concerns freedom of speech and people's freedom in general," he added. Iceland's foreign ministry has demanded a meeting with Luis Arreaga, the US ambassador to Reykjavík. Jónsdóttir told the Guardian: "I am very pleased that we are going to have this meeting. US wants Twitter details of Wikileaks activists.

8 January 2011Last updated at 18:09 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. The US District Court in Virginia said it wanted information including user names, addresses, connection records, telephone numbers and payment details. Those named include Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and an Icelandic MP. The US is examining possible charges against Mr Assange over the leaking of classified diplomatic cables. Reports indicate the Department of Justice may seek to indict him on charges of conspiring to steal documents with Private First Class Bradley Manning, a US Army intelligence analyst. Mr Manning is facing a court martial and up to 52 years in prison for allegedly sending Wikileaks the diplomatic cables, as well military logs about incidents in Afghanistan and Iraq and a classified military video.

Lawmaker: U.S. subpoenaed Twitter information linked to WikiLeaks. Birgitta Jonsdottir: Says the U.S. justice department has asked for her private Twitter messages to be handed over. Icelandic lawmaker says the Justice Department has demanded information Birgitta Jonsdottir says Twitter informed her of the subpoena on FridayThe court demanded Twitter provide private information, she saysWikiLeaks has been publishing confidential U.S. government documents (CNN) -- U.S. officials have subpoenaed information on the social media website Twitter about Julian Assange and several other prominent supporters of WikiLeaks, an Icelandic lawmaker named in documents said Saturday. A federal court in Virginia has ordered Twitter to provide information for each account registered to Assange, U.S. Army Pfc. The order asks for subscriber names, user names, screen names, mailing addresses, residential addresses and connection records along with other information related to the accounts. CNN could not independently verify the documents.

WikiLeaks in review. WikiLeaks’ Twitter Followers Spooked By DoJ Court Order - Parmy Olson - Tea & Tech. DOJ sends order to Twitter for Wikileaks-related account info | Privacy Inc. The U.S. Justice Department has obtained a court order directing Twitter to turn over information about the accounts of activists with ties to WikiLeaks, including an Icelandic politician, a legendary Dutch hacker, and a U.S. computer programmer. Birgitta Jónsdóttir, one of 63 members of Iceland's national parliament, said this afternoon that Twitter notified her of the order's existence and told her she has 10 days to oppose the request for information about activity on her account since November 1, 2009.

"I think I am being given a message, almost like someone breathing in a phone," Jónsdóttir said in a Twitter message. The order (PDF) also covers "subscriber account information" for Bradley Manning , the U.S. Army private charged with leaking classified information; WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum; Dutch hacker and XS4ALL Internet provider co-founder Rop Gonggrijp; and WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange. The order sent to Twitter initially was signed under seal by U.S. US subpoenas Wikileaks tweets, and why this could affect you. The US government has subpoenaed Twitter in a bid to support an ongoing criminal investigation into whether Wikileaks and people involved or connected to Wikileaks, including an Icelandic member of parliament, broke the law. According to Wikileaks lawyer Mark Stephens live on the BBC News a short time ago, it is believed Facebook and Google (see here) have also been contacted regarding Wikileaks members and potential whistleblowers.

Update (12:20am GMT): Mark Stephens on the BBC News also makes clear that the court order will also cover the "600,000 odd followers that Wikileaks has on Twitter". The order asks specifically for names of those attached to selected accounts, user and screen names, and any registered mailing or postal addresses.

It also asks for email addresses, credit card details where possible, and even content relating to connected mobile phones. According to CNN: Twitter is in a difficult position. Twitter Informs Users Of DOJ WikiLeaks Court Order, Didn’t Have To. DoJ Subpoena Proves Twitter’s Value — and Its Weakness. Icelandic Parliamentarian Calls U.S. Subpoena of Her Twitter Account over WikiLeaks Involvement "Disturbing" US DOJ subpoenas my twitter account info. On the Twitter court order. De Telegraaf nieuws: 'Gonggrijp Assange's adjud...

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Radio Free Meredith - What Not to Do with a Subpoena. Why I’m Having Second Thoughts About The Wisdom Of The Cloud. Liberal MEPs want answers over US WikiLeaks subpoena. Why Twitter Was the Only Company to Challenge the Secret WikiLeaks Subpoena. Tthe Broken Market for Consumer Privacy without anything close to probable cause. Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union » What the Government Wants to Know About You. Court Set to Hear EFF, ACLU Arguments to Vacate Subpoena for Twitter Accounts | Lippmann Would Roll. Government challenged on Twitter records access. WikiLeaks row intensifies as US makes 'privacy' move against Twitter | Media. WikiLeaks Backers Will Fight U.S. Demand for Assange Twitter Account Data.