Court Upholds Subpoena For WikiLeaks Twitter Records

The Twitter users whose records were being requested went to court to block the government from accessing their Twitter data, but a judge denied the motion, and upheld the original subpena.

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  After Twitter notified Jonsdottir that the government had sought information about her account, the EFF and the ACLU said the government's demand for the records violated First Amendment speech rights and Fourth Amendment privacy rights of the Twitter-account holders. The groups also filed motions to unseal records in the case in an effort to see if the government had sought similar records from Facebook, ISPs or other service providers.The judge denied a request to unseal the government's application for the Twitter order.

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  “This decision permits the government to obtain court orders requiring the disclosure of private information in secret. That's not how our system works.” ~ACLU attorney Aden Fine

• Read the whole article by Kim Zetter HERE.