Electronic Frontier Foundation :: A New York judge's broad opinion, ordering Twitter to comply with a subpoena (PDF) and turn over account information about one of its users arrested for disorderly conduct in connection with an Occupy Wall Street protest, is worse the deeper you dig into it. The judge ruled (PDF) that the user, Malcolm Harris, lost ownership of his tweets once he posted them online, and therefore had no legal standing to challenge the subpoena. This decision prompted several worried responses, including our own, because our Fourth Amendment privacy rights should not be surrendered simply because we use online service providers that store information remotely. Even Twitter stepped in to defend Harris, filing a motion to quash (PDF) the subpoena.
HT: MediReDEF
EFF: Prosecutors want location data via a Twitter shortcut bit.ly/KPrDqF /via @MediaReDEF
— Media ReDEFined (@MediaReDEF) May 12, 2012
Continue to read Hanni Fakhoury, www.eff.org
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