Boston Judge Upholds Twitter Subpoena re: Anonymous Members
Posted on Thu Dec 29, 2011 at 02:12:03 PM EST
Tags: Anonymous (all tags)
On December 14, the Suffolk District Attorney issued a subpoena to Twitter for information related to Occupy Boston and some members of Anonymous. The ACLU moved to quash on First Amendment grounds. Today, the judge upheld the subpoena.
Twitter released the subpoena to the account holders of those named, @p0isAn0n @OccupyBoston #BostonPD #d0xcak3, who in turn posted it online. You can read it here. The subpoena also sought “IP address logs for account creation and for the period December 8, 2011 to December 13, 2011."
In this pastebin press release, an Anonymous member or supporter posted the reasons the subpoena was invalid.
More here.
It's good that Twitter provided the subpoena to the affected account holders. It's bad that a judge has upheld a subpoena for a hashtag. The ACLU has said it may appeal.
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