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Twitter will alert users before handing over information to authorities

article published on 25 May, 2011

Twitter will alert users that they are being pursued if they are forced to hand over user information to authorities. Tony Wang, who heads up Twitter's European operations, commented when asked about an online privacy dispute that is beginning to boil over in the UK. "Platforms should have responsibility not to defend the user, but to protect that user's right to defend him or herself," said Wang. ... [ read the full article ]

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hikaricor
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_ 		25. May 2011 @ 19:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
How about simply saying no like you should be doing instead?
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Laura999
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_ 		25. May 2011 @ 21:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Twitter should protect our user's information and interests.


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KillerBug
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_ 		25. May 2011 @ 23:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Unfortunately, they can't really say no in some cases. The governments of many countries have made laws requiring them to comply with requests for information...usually they say it is to stop terrorists or something. Of course, now it is being used to try to squash a story about a cheating footballer...not to crush terrorists.
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xtago
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_ 		26. May 2011 @ 03:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If a court subpoenas a person or company to provide that court evidence then they have to comply.

If they don't they face getting a few different charges like holding up a court, not providing evidence, contempt of the court etc.

A bit like some helping say a murderer to get inside a house but they don't actually go inside, but them just helping them will mean they have become an accomplice to the murderer as they could have stopped them but instead helped them.

Twitter is just trying to get out of the contempt of court charge, the end person is screwed either way, as they can goto court or not goto court but if they don't the court process still goes ahead with or without them and them simply don't get any defence or what ever to get out of the charges.

Generally those sorts of case will goto who ever turns up in court but generally a court will do a warrant for the arrest of the person for failing to turn up at court and will be forced to do their side of the proceeding.

It doesn't really pay to keep saying no or trying to get out of it.
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hearme0
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_ 		26. May 2011 @ 10:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
How generous of you Twitter........the fact that you even have to say this is without integrity. It should be DeFacto.
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hikaricor
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_ 		26. May 2011 @ 16:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The point is that if people and companies didn't put up with these kind of laws that are seriously detrimental to free speech they wouldn't be laws for very long. It's easy to say the have to do it but no that's not the case they don't have to do anything. I've never accepted the rationality that because a court says something must be done that it must, the only reason that works is because people allow themselves to fear such things.
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pippincp
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_ 		3. June 2011 @ 08:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Humourous comments above which to an extent miss the point perhaps due to an incomplete report on the case and a few missing facts and some smart UK lawyers.

Had they applied to a UK Court for Twitter to reveal the information it would have been a non-starter and would be thrown out.

Once the info was released via Parliamentary Privaledge the injunction was basically null and void as it has to be published in Hansard and as such the media are free to report it. Case over.

They didn't, they went to a US Court. As a US based company Twitter is bound by US law.

Can't see what they hope to gain.


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