Icelandic MP To Challenge US Court Ruling On Twitter Privacy

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 12, 2011 @03:33AM from the ain't-over-'till-it's-over dept.

JabrTheHut writes "The Guardian has a story of how Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir, a former WikiLeaks volunteer, is challenging the U.S.'s acquisition of Twitter account information, IP addresses, mailing addresses and even bank information. The U.S. says it wanted these details to help with its investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Jonsdottir said, 'This is a huge blow for everybody that uses social media. We have to have the same civil rights online as we have offline. Imagine if the U.S. authorities wanted to do a house search at my home, go through my private papers. There would be a hell of a fight. It's absolutely unacceptable.'"

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Re:"the same civil rights online as we have offlin by Godskitchen · 2011-11-12 04:00 · Score: -1, Troll

Unfortunately, the DHS (literally translated to Russian, the acronym would be "KGB") seems to think there are none in either place.
Give me a break.
Re:"the same civil rights online as we have offlin by Godskitchen · 2011-11-12 04:21 · Score: -1, Troll

Attempts at wit don't make your previous comments any more meaningful.