Constitutional Law

Twitter WikiLeaks Hearing Tomorrow

By Jessica Monaco, ACLU

The ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will be in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia for a hearing in a legal battle over the government's demands for the records of several Twitter users in connection with an investigation related to WikiLeaks.

The ACLU and EFF represent Birgitta Jonsdottir, an Icelandic parliamentarian and one of the Twitter users whose records were sought by the government. They have asked the court to unseal the still-secret court records of the government's attempts to collect private records from Twitter, Inc., as well as other companies who may have received demands for information from the government. The groups have also asked the court to overturn the December 14 court order requiring Twitter to provide information about its users.

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Full post as published by Blog of Rights on February 14, 2011 (boomark / email).