US Twitter Spying May Have Broken EU Privacy Law

Stoobalou writes "A group of European MPs will today push EU bosses to say if the US government breached European privacy laws by snooping on Twitter users with links to whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks. The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) will today pose an oral question to the European Commission, seeking clarification from the US on a subpoena demanding the micro-blogging site hand over users' account details."

Comments

How do you "snoop" on public broadcasts?

[SuperKendall]

Since just reading tweets means I am snooping, shouldn't I be paying royalties to the record companies for all the music broadcast over radio since I can "snoop" in on that as well?

Or perhaps it means that record companies cannot charge radio stations broadcast fees since there is no such thing as a public broadcast anymore.