“If you post a tweet, just like if you scream it out the window, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.”
- Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Matthew A. Sciarrino Jr.
Sciarrino ruled Monday that Twitter must turn over some three months’ worth of data from the account of an Occupy Wall Street protester who is being prosecuted on charges of disorderly conduct.
This raises all new questions about freedom of speech as relates to communication technology and will probably lead to even more extreme rulings in the future.
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