Twitter Ordered to Turn Over WikiLeaks Data (issj.sys-con.com) March 21, 2011 at 1:00 AM
The Justice Department got a federal magistrate judge in Virginia last Friday
to uphold her previous order telling Twitter to give federal prosecutors
access to the accounts maintained by people close to WikiLeaks. That includes
the contacts, records of activity, e-mail addresses, banking and credit card
information associated with them. The government, which hasn’t asked for
content, is looking for evidence that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his
associates broke US law. It would like to tie Assange to Pfc. Bradley Manning,
the US soldier believed to have sent WikiLeaks a treasure trove of classified
documents. The American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier
Foundation and lawyers representing the account holders, including WikiLeaks
volunteer Birgitta Jónsdóttir, now a member of Iceland’s parliament, opposed
the move on First and Fourth Amendment grounds.
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