Appeal of Twitter data from WikiLeaks probe to keep (AFP)

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP)-appellierte Internet lawyers U.S. judge the order, must pass in the data of the three users in contact with the controversial site WikiLeaks Twitter.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) called the March 3 ruling for Icelandic parliamentarians Birgitta Jónsdóttir, one of the Twitter users targeted by the decision.

The EFF and ACLU want magistrate judge Theresa of Buchanan's decision annulled and WikiLeaks investigators to reveal similar requests for information from other Internet companies.

"Except in very rare cases the Government should not be allowed to get information about the individual private Internet communications in the secret," ACLU staff attorney Aden said fine.

"When the judgment may be, our customer can never know how many other companies turn over information about them have been ordered, and they can never possibly challenge the invasive questions."

In addition to Jónsdóttir the Twitter accounts belonging to U.S. computer Explorer Jacob Appelbaum and Rop Gonggrijp, a Dutch volunteer for WikiLeaks.

The Government details of Twitter was request public because of the California based microblogging service, notified them according to the EFF

In its decision, Buchanan rejected arguments that the gripper for Twitter information freedom of speech and privacy violated.

She said the three "already their Twitter posts and associations publicly exposed" and voluntarily provided information about Twitter in accordance with the website privacy policy.

Buchanan dismissed the argument, that the order of the fourth amendment of the U.S. Constitution, violates protects people against "unreasonable" search.

When the trio forwarded information about Twitter, it was "all reasonable expectation of privacy," she said.

"Services such as Twitter have information that we track and link our communication across multiple services such as Facebook and Google mail, can be used," said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn.

"The magistrate herrschenden that users have no way to protect that information from the US Government is particularly worrying."

President Barack Obama administration get a court order last year that keeps information from the Twitter accounts such as he has published against WikiLeaks, a flood of secret diplomatic documents.

WikiLeaks, who has strongly criticized the order, said that three Twitter users for the website never worked, however, that two public helped make a video, a 2007 helicopter strike showed us in Baghdad, which killed several people.

A camera was worn by an employee of Reuters news agency the recordings the Apache pilots than mistaking a rocket drive grenade launcher.

WikiLeaks has since a number of internal correspondence among us diplomats around the world angered US authorities posting secret documents on the war in Afghanistan and Iraq and release.


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