CHILLING: In #OccupyBoston Case, BPD Hits Twitter w/ Subpoena for Users Who Used Specific Hashtags [View all]

[kpete]

ACLU: “When an administrative subpoena is used to get information that’s protected by the First Amendment, that raises particularly troubling issues.”
http://rt.com/news/occupy-boston-twitter-court-027/

The Boston Globe reports:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2011/12/29/aclu-helps-fight-subpoena-prompted-occupy-boston-tweets/YJR0rQ3NB1eTp4N0DOnDgO/story.html?s_campaign=sm_tw

The use of Twitter information in investigations is a rare, but not unheard-of tool for law enforcement. Last year, federal authorities sought information on Twitter related to the WikiLeaks organization, and a federal judge upheld the request.

But Twitter has become known for opposing such requests and even alerting users of law-enforcement subpoenas.

A week ago, Fawkes tweeted a link to the subpoena that Boston police and the Suffolk district attorney’s office had sent to Twitter in California requesting Internet protocol addresses on his Twitter account, as well as details on the @OccupyBoston Twitter account and for Twitter users who used the hashtags #BostonPD and #d0xcak3.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/30/1050043/-CHILLING:-In-OccupyBoston-Case,-BPD-Hits-Twitter-w-Subpoena-for-Users-Who-Used-Specific-Hashtags?via=siderec
http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/wtf-what-fawkes

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