Twitter's Lawyers Seek To Block WikiLeaks Data Handover

Posted by Soulskill on Monday March 28, 2011 @07:09AM from the court-docs-limited-to-one-hundred-forty-characters dept.

jhernik writes "Lawyers on Friday asked a judge to overturn a ruling from earlier this month, forcing Twitter to hand over account details to the Department of Justice, in a case related to the federal government's ongoing investigation of WikiLeaks. The appeal (PDF) seeks to overturn a ruling that would give the government access to Twitter account details for three users who had contact with WikiLeaks. The government also wants Twitter to provide information on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and on Bradley Manning, a US Army private charged with providing data to WikiLeaks."

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Re:someone standing up for their users? by by+(1706743) · 2011-03-28 07:19 · Score: 3, Funny

RT: @v1 instead of insta-caving to abuse of law? wow. never saw that coming, certainly not from Twitter.

Twitter respect: level UP
Twitter's appeal... by MrEricSir · 2011-03-28 07:47 · Score: 5, Funny

...is a lot longer than 140 characters.

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