Saturday, November 12, 2011

[News] Twitter Must Provide Data on 3 Users, Judge Rules

Judge rules that the geo-location and IP addresses of 3 people, including an Icelandic Parliament member, suspected of assisting Wikileaks, are to be turned over to US authorities by Twitter.



The reasoning cited by the judge: "...because Twitter users “voluntarily” turned over the Internet protocol addresses when they signed up for an account, they relinquished an expectation of privacy."



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