[Chapter-delegates] OWS protestor doesn’t own his tweets, judge rules

[Sivasubramanian M]

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.

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.”
http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/24/ows-protestor-doesnt-own-his-tweets-judge-rules/


Sivasubramanian M
Internet Society India Chennai
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