Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been...

A year ago this week, it was learned that a US grand jury had secretly issued subpoenas for the Twitter account information of several WikiLeaks supporters.

The subpoenas have been held up by challenges from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, but now U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady has ruled that Twitter must provide the data, reasoning that the grand jury investigation is being delayed and that he does not believe the challenge is likely to succeed.

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The subjects of the subpoenas are Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of the Icelandic Parliament; Rop Gonggrijp, a Dutch activist; and Jacob Appelbaum, a computer security researcher who once represented WikiLeaks at a conference. They had argued that the subpoena violates their rights under the First Amendment.

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The information is being sought under a law which originally provided for government access to telephone billing records and which allows it to demand full contact information for the Twitter account, including all known email addresses, the IP addresses used to access the account, times and durations of connections to the account, and information on data transfers.

  Raw Story

Next? Do you have a subscription to a newspaper that ran a whistleblowing story? Okay, so they don’t do that any more. Do you visit websites that are critical of the government? You’re on one now. Maybe you want to think about that.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.