How hard is it, exactly, to set up an un-traceable twitter account?
I mean, you could do it with a laptop connected to the internet through
a public wifi location (any McDonalds or coffee shop, for example). Or
use any free proxy or even TOR.
What is it that someone is "tweeting" that is so critical that police or
the courts need to know who it is?
"On Monday, a New York judge ruled that the company must hand
over tweets published by Malcolm Harris"
I thought that all tweets from a given user are easily available to
anyone - no need for a court order - ?
"Twitter also received a total of 3,378 copyright takedown notices"
What can you transmit in 144 characters that could possibly be a
copyright violation? (note: I don't consider URL's that point to
copyrighted material to be valid targets for DMCA takedown requests)
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U.S. police behind most requests for Twitter information
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/u-police-be...6--sector.html
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Law enforcement agencies in the United States
are behind the overwhelming majority of requests for Twitter users'
private information, the social media company revealed Monday in its
first ever public report on the subject.
Of the 849 total government requests for user information during the
period spanning January 1 to June 30 this year, 679 -- or 80 percent --
took place in the United States, typically for use in criminal
investigations, Twitter said.
Japan was in second place after the United States with 98 requests filed
by police, followed by 11 requests from law enforcement agencies in the
United Kingdom and the same number from agencies in Canada.
Twitter, which was credited last year for fueling social unrest, from
revolutions in the Middle East to Occupy protests in U.S. cities, has
increasingly been pulled into criminal prosecutions as it gains
popularity as an often-anonymous broadcast network.
On Monday, a New York judge ruled that the company must hand over tweets
published by Malcolm Harris, an Occupy Wall Street protestor arrested
during a demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge in October. Twitter had
fought to dismiss a request from prosecutors seeking the tweets as
evidence, arguing that they belonged to Harris under the company's terms
of service.
The company, which published the data in a blog post on Monday, also
revealed it had received a total of six governments requests over the
past half-year to remove tweets that violated court injunctions or local
laws, such as anti-defamation statutes.
Twitter also received a total of 3,378 copyright takedown notices, the
company said.
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