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Twitter's Lawyers Seek To Block WikiLeaks Data Handover
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."
instead of insta-caving to abuse of law? wow. never saw that coming, certainly not from Twitter.
Twitter respect: level UP
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
Tweets are public. Anyone can call them up with a twitter search (as far as that works). So they aren't the issue.
The issue would be the DMs. Those are more like phone calls. But, unlike phone calls, they're archived on Twitter's servers.
So this is like a wiretap that can retrieve past phone calls. Which is a really cool idea.
Frankly Twitter, the EFF, and the ACLU have little chance on that count. A warrant can be issued to bug anyone's communications or retrieve their stored data. I'm not sure why they think they can change that.
would have made haste to bend all over for the govn't.
...is a lot longer than 140 characters.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
I look forward to a time when those big social networks are not hosted in the U.S. Having them hosted in the U.S. means that there is actually no real privacy because the government can always ask for your private information. What I don't understand is why the U.S. public is not raging over they're governments actions, described in the leaked cabels. They're even changing the law so they can prosicute J. Assange. I'm so happy not to live in the U.S, and I'm from Iceland. It's a country that's bankrupt, the politicians are more or less sh** and our so called summer spans two months a year! Now come at me!
In a world without fences and walls, who needs gates and windows?
The story is wrong. They apparently didn't even read the document they linked to on the ACLU's website.
Twitter isn't appealing. The people whose information is being sought (Jacob Appelbaum, Ron Gonggrjp, and Birgitta Jonsdottir) are.
It's great to see a company not bending over and greasing up when the federal Fascists come to call.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
I'm sure I speak for the whole of slashdot and indeed human kind when I state that your ideas are fascinating. Could I humbugly suggest that you provide directions as to how interested parties may subscribe to your newsletter?
Your problem is that you clearly don't understand the difference between a little corporate malfeasance and National Defense. If it was your safety and security being threatened you might feel a little bit different about it – or not, if you're an idiot. Non-idiots already know that diplomacy is like making sausage – something best not observed too closely.
Well first of all I don't even understand the word "malfeasance"! But if this information is so dangerous in the wild, than why the hell does it exist? And what security are you talking about? You think this information will make a real difference in the lines of extremists in other countries? I honestly don't think so, it would be the equivalent of pouring a glass of water into Thingvallavatn(google it)!
And you are correct that you are probably happier living in Iceland than in the USA. That makes us happy too.
Oh come on...I know you can do better than that!
In a world without fences and walls, who needs gates and windows?
Aldrich Ames
In jail still
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames#Post_sentence
Robert Hansen
and in jail still
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hansen#Imprisonment
Unless you think they should have gotten the death penalty?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
You have a smaller then average sexual organ and your genetic markers indicate you are predispositions for diseases that makes you pretty much uninsure-able if you had them.
There is no problem with the information existing, the problem is with the wrong people knowing about it. If people knew about your short pecker, you couldn't get laid except by paying for it. If certain people knew about your predisposition to some diseases, your medical coverage would disappear.
And no, I don't know that any of that is true or not for you specifically, it certainly is for someone out there. There is no reason why that information needs to "not exist", but several good reasons for why it shouldn't be in the open for all to see.
To pretend that if information exists, it should all be in the open is a little stupid. If you think otherwise, post your address and banking information to prove it. Let's not trip over the obvious to make a point that doesn't exist.
I never said ALL information should be made public! But in a country where democracy exists and the government is democratically elected all information regarding the governments affairs and affairs of the governments, oh let's call them, agencies should be open!
How are the voters able to make up their mind about who should run the White House when they don't know all their dark secrets???
As I'm writing this I realize that this is not an issue as 96%(not an accurate number) of people in America, and in fact Iceland, vote for the same political party no matter what they have done!
In a world without fences and walls, who needs gates and windows?
No they should not.. For much the same reason why your bank account information and other things shouldn't be open. The government runs those affairs, not you. In the course of running them, certain things need to be kept quiet in order for the fruits of those actions to materialize.
The same way they do now and have for more then 200 years.
That's because 90% or better of the American public, know that you take some good with the bad. Nothing in the leaks exposed anything I would consider as bad. But to the people they are working with, they would consider them as bad. I don't care that we spied on the UN. The UN can't be trusted anyways. I don't care that some middle east country asked us to engage in a war and we didn't oblige. It's not that important to me as a citizen.. But it is important to the citizens of Iran or turkfuckistan or where ever else. Those things should be secrete during the relevant years.
Naive enough to know that if the RIAA gained its evidence illegally, I can fuck them in the ass and take all their candy in court.