CriticalFunker
8th January 2011, 08:15 AM
Wow, this is what I call a paranoid security state at the brink. Not really a good move,imo. Other than being petty and juvenile, I'd say it's pushing way beyonds the limit to personal privacy and intimidation by a paranoid rising authoritarian state. Someone is mad. Last resorts: Give us your twitter information,credit cards,banking records ! :mad:
source:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/
Last night, Birgitta Jónsdóttir -- a former WikiLeaks volunteer and current member of the Icelandic Parliament -- announced (on Twitter) that she had been notified by Twitter that the DOJ had served a Subpoena demanding information "about all my tweets and more since November 1st 2009." Several news outlets, including The Guardian, wrote about Jónsdóttir's announcement.
What hasn't been reported is that the Subpoena served on Twitter -- which is actually an Order from a federal court that the DOJ requested -- seeks the same information for numerous other individuals currently or formerly associated with WikiLeaks, including Jacob Appelbaum, Rop Gonggrijp, and Julian Assange. It also seeks the same information for Bradley Manning and for WikiLeaks' Twitter account.
The information demanded by the DOJ is sweeping in scope. It includes all mailing addresses and billing information known for the user, all connection records and session times, all IP addresses used to access Twitter, all known email accounts, as well as the "means and source of payment," including banking records and credit cards. It seeks all of that information for the period beginning November 1, 2009, through the present.
Document order:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/07/twitter/subpoena.pdf
UPDATE II: It's worth recalling -- and I hope journalists writing about this story remind themselves -- that all of this extraordinary probing and "criminal" investigating is stemming from WikiLeaks' doing nothing more than publishing classified information showing what the U.S. Government is doing: something investigative journalists, by definition, do all the time.
And the key question now is this: did other Internet and social network companies (Google, Facebook, etc.) receive similar Orders and then quietly comply? It's difficult to imagine why the DOJ would want information only from Twitter; if anything, given the limited information it has about users, Twitter would seem one of the least fruitful avenues to pursue. But if other companies did receive and quietly comply with these orders, it will be a long time before we know, if we ever do, given the prohibition in these orders on disclosing even its existence to anyone.
Seems to me more violations of personal rights and privacy concerns. :Cue the Apologist Symphony:
Simple Mathematical Formula
US Govt + Wikileaks volunteers + Wikileaks information=Y U Mad Tho?
http://images1.memegenerator.net/ImageMacro/4042924
/y-u-mad-tho.jpg
If you don't think this is a serious battle for our rights as american citizens, you are fooling yourself. It's obvious the US Govt has gone off the rails off anything deemed as classified information. Not a good sign for the new decade.
source:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/
Last night, Birgitta Jónsdóttir -- a former WikiLeaks volunteer and current member of the Icelandic Parliament -- announced (on Twitter) that she had been notified by Twitter that the DOJ had served a Subpoena demanding information "about all my tweets and more since November 1st 2009." Several news outlets, including The Guardian, wrote about Jónsdóttir's announcement.
What hasn't been reported is that the Subpoena served on Twitter -- which is actually an Order from a federal court that the DOJ requested -- seeks the same information for numerous other individuals currently or formerly associated with WikiLeaks, including Jacob Appelbaum, Rop Gonggrijp, and Julian Assange. It also seeks the same information for Bradley Manning and for WikiLeaks' Twitter account.
The information demanded by the DOJ is sweeping in scope. It includes all mailing addresses and billing information known for the user, all connection records and session times, all IP addresses used to access Twitter, all known email accounts, as well as the "means and source of payment," including banking records and credit cards. It seeks all of that information for the period beginning November 1, 2009, through the present.
Document order:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/07/twitter/subpoena.pdf
UPDATE II: It's worth recalling -- and I hope journalists writing about this story remind themselves -- that all of this extraordinary probing and "criminal" investigating is stemming from WikiLeaks' doing nothing more than publishing classified information showing what the U.S. Government is doing: something investigative journalists, by definition, do all the time.
And the key question now is this: did other Internet and social network companies (Google, Facebook, etc.) receive similar Orders and then quietly comply? It's difficult to imagine why the DOJ would want information only from Twitter; if anything, given the limited information it has about users, Twitter would seem one of the least fruitful avenues to pursue. But if other companies did receive and quietly comply with these orders, it will be a long time before we know, if we ever do, given the prohibition in these orders on disclosing even its existence to anyone.
Seems to me more violations of personal rights and privacy concerns. :Cue the Apologist Symphony:
Simple Mathematical Formula
US Govt + Wikileaks volunteers + Wikileaks information=Y U Mad Tho?
http://images1.memegenerator.net/ImageMacro/4042924
/y-u-mad-tho.jpg
If you don't think this is a serious battle for our rights as american citizens, you are fooling yourself. It's obvious the US Govt has gone off the rails off anything deemed as classified information. Not a good sign for the new decade.