internet privacy updates in two stories today; via the verge, twitter fights back against the subpoena to obtain an occupy protester's tweets, filing a motion today to quash the subpoena on 4th amendment grounds against unreasonable searches and seizures, and, because users' licenses state that they retain the right to content - that -
the federal Stored Communication Act specifically allows users to challenge requests for their information. According to Twitter, the court's decision to deny Harris an opportunity to fight the DA's subpoena "imposes a new and overwhelming burden on Twitter to fight for its users' rights," since it will have to either always give up information or get directly involved in every Twitter user's defense when there's a request for tweets.
as blogged in late april, a manhattan judge recently ruled that your tweets belong to twitter, in the d.a.'s action against a brooklyn bridge occupy protester who was allegedly tweeting the day occupy stood up for the constitution and n.y.p.d. arrested 700 people. although millions of viewers saw n.y.p.d. leads thousands of marchers directly into traffic, protester malcolm harris is the one who really "done the deed," i guess, in the eyes of that judge, and even if he wasn't, the judge has a right to look and see what he may or may not have been writing on the internet.
so this judge is not the last word, we hear today, and by any stretch.
and, more good news in internet privacy today, another new york judge rules that an ip address is not a poisen. that is, your ip address is not "you." observant judge in my opinion!
more below in a youtube from RT, and in an interview about the ruling with a staff attorney at the electronic frontier foundation, a sort of civil liberties advocacy group for internet users.
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