Twitter should be the dates of the Dutchman Rop Gonggrijp hand over to the U.s. government. Gonggrijp is not suspected, but the data is used in research to a WikiLeaks published legervideo.
A judge in the Us state of Virginia has an objection to the giving of the Twitter data is dismissed, making the microblogging service, the data will have to hand. The court, that the judgment of a lower court affirmed, reasoning that an evil precedent would be if Twitter the data would not need to hand in. It includes data about private messages on Twitter, such as time of sending and receiver. Twitter is, however, not obliged to check the content of the so-called dm’s to reveal. Gonggrijp said earlier, no private messages have been sent via Twitter. The Americans were primarily interested in its ip address.
The U.s. government asked the Twitter-data of the Dutch hacker and founder of isp Xs4all, at the beginning of this year. That happened in connection with the investigation into the disclosure of the legervideo ‘Collateral Murder’, showing that Americans eleven Iraqi citizens dead. In addition to the data of Gonggrijp, the data of two WikiLeaks associated persons are handed over, namely the American Jacob Appelbaum and Icelandic parliamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir, reports Wired. Getting the Twitter data is not uncontroversial; politicians convert previously questioned the Us request.
Update 12:38: Gonggrijp says on his blog that the decision for him, with a small impact: “You can’t do much from that data format that you can’t find on my blog. There are, however, larger principles at stake, and this is not a good court ruling for online privacy.”