Thursday January 13, 2011
Twits:
Does US Government Twitter Snooping Break EU Law?
The US government has been busy preparing a case against Julian Assange of Wikileaks. They have already made a formal request to Twitter for details of tweets by Assange and his supporters.
But a group of MEPs are questioning whether the US has breached EU privacy laws by snooping on the messages of European citizens.
From THINQ:
"The lack of an identified illegal act and of a judicial enquiry in the US casts a shadow on the whole process of lifting the protection of citizens' privacy for the sake of national security through such subpoena orders," Romanian MEP and ALDE member, Renate Weber, said in a statement.
"The EU should raise with the US authorities the fundamental issue of putting into question those persons who have not committed any crime," she added.
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