USA demands twitter hand over Wikileaks supporter messages
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[QUOTE=Zeke129;27271783]Glad to know Twitter is willing to just bend over without a fight. Guess which site I will never be using![/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure by using Twitter you agree to some terms that the data is protected and handled under US law.
Twitter is a US company and is not really the one to blame here.
If the police somehow, not allowed by law to do so, requested some telephone company to give out data, the company is not the one who has to send out the lawyers to find out if this is wrong or right.
[QUOTE=Killuah;27273770]I'm pretty sure by using Twitter you agree to some terms that the data is protected and handled under US law.
Twitter is a US company and is not really the one to blame here.
If the police somehow, not allowed by law to do so, requested some telephone company to give out data, the company is not the one who has to send out the lawyers to find out if this is wrong or right.[/QUOTE]
They subpoenaed Twitter directly, what are you talking about?
What significance does this serve anyways? The US will probably just become more paranoid now if they find some kind of "secret message" or something.
Plus I call profiling, why not hold the whole website instead of singling out each wikileaks supporter. To that point also, how do they distinguish them?
[QUOTE=Killuah;27273717]But where is the suspicion of promoting/ helpig crime in this case?
Only that would validate the need to have a look at her data.[/QUOTE]
An organization which is aiding and abetting the distribution of stolen information is being investigated, therefore the people who work for it are being investigated. Hence the extremely reasonable suspicion.
[editline]8th January 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Zeke129;27273673]I'm not seeing probable cause in this case. I'm seeing association with Wikileaks, something that happens to also be constitutionally protected.[/QUOTE]
And yet if it was a human trafficking ring being investigated and all the people associated with it had their data subpoenaed, you'd not bat an eye.
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[QUOTE=Coffee;27271432]BBC has a news bot in the News Node.[/QUOTE]
In the name of a fair platform we should then have... ITN.
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