http://gigaom.com/2012/07/19/twitter-raises-stakes-in-who-owns-your-tweets-fight/


Twitter announced today that it is filing an appeal in a case that is helping to define privacy rights in the social media era.

The case turns on a subpoena by which New York City wants Twitter to turn over the account information of Occupy Wall Street protestor Malcolm Harris. In a controversial decision in October, Judge Matthew Sciarrino Jr. ruled that Harris couldn’t challenge the subpoena because he didn’t have any rights in the Twitter account and therefore lacked standing.

After the court booted Harris from the case, Twitter itself stepped in to challenge the subpoena. Early this month, the same judge ruled that no privacy rights were at stake because Twitter is a public forum akin to shouting in the street. The judge ultimately decided that prosecutors could have access to the account after he conducted a closed-court review of which parts of the account were relevant (for a detailed overview of the case, see: Social Media Judge says tweets are for Cops.

http://gigaom.com/2012/07/19/twitter-raises-stakes-in-who-owns-your-tweets-fight/

And no one is interested in the least about how twitter is trying to protect people's privacy from big brother....

I could care less, I don't twitter or tweet.

Same here. I don't give 2 tweets about twitter.

If you talk in public then someone might hear you.

They can never own what you say but if they record you
they can play it back....

I am talking about your private information, not WHAT YOU TWEET.

Everyone knows that's public.

duh!

When I am conducting business for myself and parents I get sick of how difficult it is to do anything because of so-called privacy laws, and all the while I KNOW that any official corporate or government agency can access all of my private information at the drop of a hat.

We don't have any privacy from big brother.

That was what twitter was fighting for. They were resisting the authority of government who was insisting on having the private files on someone on twitter.

Good for them!!

More people need to resist big brother when they demand private information just because they want it, or are digging for dirt on someone.

People who "don't care" are the reason we are under the control of the government.

People should govern the government. When has such a large gap been created between the two. We are the people. The government should not be able to function without our consent and support. And yet they are more and more becoming the dictators of our lives.