Saturday, 8 January 2011

DOJ subpoenas Twitter records of several WikiLeaks volunteers

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. A copy of the Order served on Twitter is here...

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Glenn Greenwald @'Salon'

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Searching Seizing Computers, Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations | DM Access, No Prob | PDF (big) http://bit.ly/gH17En

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Take Spaceboy out for a couple of hours and come back and the world has changed...

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Seems like only yesterday the US vilified China for demanding Google turn over users' private data. #twitter #wikileaks http://is.gd/kkXL6

rop_g Rop Gonggrijp

For all these people that were asking: this kind of thing is why people run their own mail servers. Get it now?

JPBarlow John Perry Barlow

RT @TechCrunch Twitter Informs Users Of DOJ WikiLeaks Court Order. Advises they contact EFF. http://tcrn.ch/h9s1B4

birgittaj Birgitta Jónsdóttir

If anyone from @twitter legal is reading - I'd like confirm that I am contesting any subpoenas - I do not consent. My lawyer will call.

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'Massive Bird Death Over Iceland'

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US tells Twitter to hand over WikiLeaks supporter's messages

Henry Rollins on WikiLeaks

SoundCloud: The New Content Identification System

"Starting in the last few weeks we’ve turned on an automatic content identification system, similar to those used on other major media sharing sites. The system is used primarily for identifying audio that rightsholders have requested to be taken off SoundCloud. This is good news because it makes it easier for artists, labels and other content owners to control how the content they’ve created is available. And when you upload your own audio to SoundCloud, we can find out more quickly if somebody is uploading a copy to their own page without your permission.
For the vast majority of SoundCloud users, there won’t be any changes. You can keep on creating, recording and uploading original content (and any audio that you have the rights to upload) without any interruption. But we’ve already received some questions about this, so we wanted to give everyone the heads up.
In cases where users upload audio that is owned by rightsholders who have requested a takedown, we are hiding the upload entirely and sending an e-mail to explain the situation and give the user options for next steps. If you receive one of these e-mails and feel that the upload was flagged in error, because you actually have permission to upload the audio, there’s a simple dispute process. We’ll review the dispute, unhide the upload, and it will appear in your profile again with all stats and comments intact."

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