DOJ Subpoenas Twitter Records of Several WikiLeaks Volunteers

Glenn Greenwald:

It was issued on December 14 and ordered sealed — i.e., kept secret from the targets of the Order.  It gave Twitter three days to respond and barred the company from notifying anyone, including the users, of the existence of the Order.  On January 5, the same judge directed that the Order be unsealed at Twitter’s request in order to inform the users and give them 10 days to object; had Twitter not so requested, it would have been compelled to turn over this information without the knowledge of its users.

Kudos to Twitter. They didn’t have to ask for this.

★ Saturday, 8 January 2011