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

[Cintra Sooknanan]

Thanks for sharing this Siva,

The trend seems to be not only on the Court's side but also on the part of
the cloud operators
http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/24/2972228/cloud-storage-terms-of-service-comparison-avoid-google-drive
 .

Regards

Cintra Sooknanan

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Sivasubramanian M <isolatedn at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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/
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> Sivasubramanian M
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