The US government has subpoenaed Twitter in a bid to support an ongoing criminal investigation into whether Wikileaks and people involved or connected to Wikileaks, including an Icelandic member of parliament, broke the law.
According to Wikileaks lawyer Mark Stephens live on the BBC News a short time ago, it is believed Facebook and Google (see here) have also been contacted regarding Wikileaks members and potential whistleblowers.
Update (12:20am GMT): Mark Stephens on the BBC News also makes clear that the court order will also cover the “600,000 odd followers that Wikileaks has on Twitter“.
The order asks specifically for names of those attached to selected accounts, user and screen names, and any registered mailing or postal addresses. It also asks for email addresses, credit card details where possible, and even content relating to connected mobile phones.
Found by Cinàedh.
Am I the only person who simply does not care about Wikileaks? Not one tiny bit. I guess I just am dumb. Happily so.
I don’t tweet of Facebook. So I guess I am just not with it.
Like John C, I am an amateur radio operator. For thirty two years now.
And a physics and history buff.
I just don’t have time for tweeties.
“Just finished drinking my coffee. Now I am going to go pee.”
Doesn’t work for me.
Awesome if a flood of people were to start following wikileaks…
Aren’t you worried that every time you hit ‘enter’ on anything on the web…
Including this site, it’s in the public domain?
Even though you use some kind of clever ‘handle’ if JCD was asked I bet he would comply with the subpoena…
I would.
#24 – yes and he could tell that somebody called nobody using the free wifi in a starbucks in London entered the email address of nobody@nospam.com