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Twitter obliged to provide information about users about Wikileaks

Written by Natascia

Monday, 14 March 2011 23:44

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A federal judge ruled on Friday that Twitter should provide information about people in contact with Wikileaks, as ordered Obama administration, according to AFP. Federal judge in Virginia (east) Theresa Carroll Buchanan administration refused on Friday to cancel the order, which he endorsed in December to provide information about the Twitter accounts of the Icelandic parliament, Birgitta Jonsdottir, of an American computer scientist, Jacob Appelbaum, and Rop Gonggrijp, a Dutch employee of Wikileaks.

It does not consider them founded fear that "the administration develop a charter of contacts that violates freedom of expression" guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. "The Court does not see where it violates first amendment," said Buchanan. "Demand on Twitter is not intended to supervise or control the content of messages or names of those who follow them," she insisted. "It is not our last word," said Aden Fine for, the vocation of the Organization of American civil liberties defense defends its applicants, referring to his intention to apply to another county, the same court, but have authority over Buchanan.
Wikileaks has published on the Internet thousands of confidential documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and notes from U.S. diplomats around the world are in post. Twitter has created the file on differences between the United States and Iceland, the U.S. ambassador in Reykjavik was convened in January to the Icelandic Foreign Ministry.

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