tangent4ronpaul
01-08-2011, 04:08 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/08/us.wikileaks.twitter/?hpt=T1
(CNN) -- A member of parliament from Iceland who is connected to WikiLeaks says U.S. officials have subpoenaed information about her from the social media website Twitter.
"Department of justice are requesting twitter to provide the info -- i got 10 days to stop it via legal process before twitter hands it over," Birgitta Jonsdottir said on her Twitter account.
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In the documents, a federal judge orders Twitter to hand over information about Jonsdottir, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning and others.
Rop Gonggrijp, a Dutch man who was also named in the documents, also posted on his website what appears to be the message he received from Twitter regarding the Department of Justice subpoena.
http://rop.gonggri.jp/
US DOJ subpoenas my twitter account info
It’s a warm and fuzzy feeling to know that somewhere, far away, people are thinking about you. Last night I received this rather interesting e-mail from twitter:
Kessel, Jan-07 11:20 am (PST):
Dear Twitter User:
We are writing to inform you that Twitter has received legal process requesting information regarding your Twitter account, @rop_g. A copy of the legal process is attached. The legal process requires Twitter to produce documents related to your account.
Please be advised that Twitter will respond to this request in 10 days from the date of this notice unless we receive notice from you that a motion to quash the legal process has been filed or that this matter has been otherwise resolved.
To respond to this notice, please e-mail us at <removed>.
This notice is not legal advice. You may wish to consult legal counsel about this matter. If you need assistance seeking counsel, you may consider contacting the Electronic Frontier Foundation <contact info removed> or the ACLU <contact info removed>.
Sincerely,
Twitter Legal
While I was still thinking about whether to write about this or talk to my lawyer first, I was told the mail and attachments were already published by Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com, including the original subpoena dated December 14, 2010. It says the DOJ wants twitter’s records on Jacob Appelbaum (a.k.a. ioerror), Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and yours truly. This all because, apparently, “the Court finds that the applicant has offered specific and articulable facts showing that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the records or other information sought are relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation.”
Plenty of thoughts to be had over this one. For one: in a case like this you’d think they would check the spelling of my last name. Furthermore I would have guessed that the US government has more discreet and effective ways of getting my IP-number and credit card details, which is essentially all this would get them.
Also it appears that twitter, as a matter of policy, does the right thing in wanting to inform their users when one of these comes in. For those who wonder if twitter ignored a court order by telling me: I did get a second PDF with a January 5 order to unseal the subpoena so that twitter could tell me, which is quite possibly the result of some communication between twitter and the DOJ. Heaven knows how many places have received similar subpoenas and just quietly submitted all they had on me.
(CNN) -- A member of parliament from Iceland who is connected to WikiLeaks says U.S. officials have subpoenaed information about her from the social media website Twitter.
"Department of justice are requesting twitter to provide the info -- i got 10 days to stop it via legal process before twitter hands it over," Birgitta Jonsdottir said on her Twitter account.
...
In the documents, a federal judge orders Twitter to hand over information about Jonsdottir, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning and others.
Rop Gonggrijp, a Dutch man who was also named in the documents, also posted on his website what appears to be the message he received from Twitter regarding the Department of Justice subpoena.
http://rop.gonggri.jp/
US DOJ subpoenas my twitter account info
It’s a warm and fuzzy feeling to know that somewhere, far away, people are thinking about you. Last night I received this rather interesting e-mail from twitter:
Kessel, Jan-07 11:20 am (PST):
Dear Twitter User:
We are writing to inform you that Twitter has received legal process requesting information regarding your Twitter account, @rop_g. A copy of the legal process is attached. The legal process requires Twitter to produce documents related to your account.
Please be advised that Twitter will respond to this request in 10 days from the date of this notice unless we receive notice from you that a motion to quash the legal process has been filed or that this matter has been otherwise resolved.
To respond to this notice, please e-mail us at <removed>.
This notice is not legal advice. You may wish to consult legal counsel about this matter. If you need assistance seeking counsel, you may consider contacting the Electronic Frontier Foundation <contact info removed> or the ACLU <contact info removed>.
Sincerely,
Twitter Legal
While I was still thinking about whether to write about this or talk to my lawyer first, I was told the mail and attachments were already published by Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com, including the original subpoena dated December 14, 2010. It says the DOJ wants twitter’s records on Jacob Appelbaum (a.k.a. ioerror), Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and yours truly. This all because, apparently, “the Court finds that the applicant has offered specific and articulable facts showing that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the records or other information sought are relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation.”
Plenty of thoughts to be had over this one. For one: in a case like this you’d think they would check the spelling of my last name. Furthermore I would have guessed that the US government has more discreet and effective ways of getting my IP-number and credit card details, which is essentially all this would get them.
Also it appears that twitter, as a matter of policy, does the right thing in wanting to inform their users when one of these comes in. For those who wonder if twitter ignored a court order by telling me: I did get a second PDF with a January 5 order to unseal the subpoena so that twitter could tell me, which is quite possibly the result of some communication between twitter and the DOJ. Heaven knows how many places have received similar subpoenas and just quietly submitted all they had on me.