“Matthew Barakat” - Twitter Must Give Up WikiLeaks Info
MATTHEW BARAKAT
Mar 11, 2011
A magistrate ruled Friday that federal prosecutors pursuing WikiLeaks can request user information from Twitter. The three targeted users, all of whom have some association with WikiLeaks, had argued that prosecutors were abusing a law that allows prosecutors to obtain certain online information without a warrant, and were endangering Twitter users' constitutional free speech and association rights. Lawyers for the Twitter users said they plan to appeal the decision.