US legal battle over Twitter subpoena heats up
Posted in: Legal, Privacy & Security at 02/06/2012 16:37
Electronic privacy advocates on Thursday weighed in on a high-stakes legal fight over online communications, arguing that a subpoena seeking an Occupy Wall Street protester's tweets violates his rights to free speech and privacy.
The filing from the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Citizen, Inc. supports Twitter's position that the individual, Occupy protestor Malcolm Harris and not Twitter itself, is the owner of the tweets and thus the proper target for any subpoena.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/06/01/oukin-uk-usa-twitter-subpoena-idUKBRE85004620120601
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/06/01/usa-twitter-subpoena-idINDEE85001K20120601
