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Twitter Ignored Request To Keep Subpoena Under Wraps

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Twitter Ignored Request To Keep Subpoena Under Wraps
December 28 2011 – by: Admin – InfoShop

Twitter appears to have forwarded a subpoena requesting user information to at least one of the owners of the accounts in question, despite a request from the Suffolk Massachusetts District Attorney’s office that the request not be disclosed “to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the ongoing criminal action” regarding the hackitivist group Anonymous and events surrounding the Occupy Boston protest.
Twitter Ignored Request To Keep Subpoena Under Wraps

By Dave Copeland
ReadWriteWeb
December 27, 2011

Twitter appears to have forwarded a subpoena requesting user information to at least one of the owners of the accounts in question, despite a request from the Suffolk Massachusetts District Attorney’s office that the request not be disclosed “to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the ongoing criminal action” regarding the hackitivist group Anonymous and events surrounding the Occupy Boston protest.

“Haha. Boston PD submitted to Twitter for my information. Lololol? For what? Posting info pulled from public domains? #comeatmebro,” said the owner of the Twitter handle @p0isAn0N last week, in a post that included the subpoena. The subpoena also sought user information, including IP addresses for @OccupBoston, Guido Fawkes (there are more than 30 accounts using the name Guido Fawkes on Twitter) and subscriber information for the hash tage #BostonPD. …source