Friday, November 11, 2011

Twitter Data Isn't Secret, Government Orders Are

Did we really expect it to turn out otherwise?

A U.S. District Court dealt two blows Thursday to the three WikiLeaks associates fighting a ruling that gives a grand jury access to their private Twitter data: One decision declaring that their private information on Twitter should be revealed, and another that the three had no right to demand that other secret legal requests for users’ private Internet data be made public in either this case or in the future.

Being *in power* means you can pull this kind of shit.

Read more here.

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