ACLU: Judge’s Decision on Protest Tweets Is Troubling

Data stored on Twitter’s servers became fair game for eager prosecutors on July 2, when a New York City criminal court judge once again upheld the District Attorney’s subpoena for more than a hundred days’ worth of tweets and user information tied to a Brooklyn man arrested during the Occupy Wall Street protests. But the judge’s decisions are all wrong, warns American Civil Liberties Union Senior Attorney Aden Fine. The judge’s linked pair of groundbreaking rulings, Fine says, redefined constitutional rights in the social media era in frightening new ways.

Tweets & Metadata

For starters, Fine