<div><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;line-height:24px">In a candid ruling, a New York judge said a protester can’t stop prosecutors from searching his Twitter account because he doesn’t own the tweets in the first place.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;line-height:24px">Judge Matthew Sciarrino Jr. cited a “widely-believed” but “mistaken” notion about online privacy rights and said that search and seizure protections don’t apply because we “do not have a ‘physical’ home on the Internet.”</p>
</div><font color="#333333"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><div><a href="http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/24/ows-protestor-doesnt-own-his-tweets-judge-rules/">http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/24/ows-protestor-doesnt-own-his-tweets-judge-rules/</a></div>
<div><font color="#333333"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><br clear="all"></font></font></font><div>Sivasubramanian M<br><div>Internet Society India Chennai</div><div><a href="http://isocindiachennai.org/" target="_blank">http://isocindiachennai.org</a></div>
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