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Old August 13th, 2013 #11
Mr A.Anderson
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Originally Posted by Bev View Post
Exactly.

I know several Brits have also been done for various Twitter comments so whether they hand over British details as well or the police just deduce who it is from their tweets/profile (and it ain't hard to do in a lot of cases), I don't know.
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The development out of the DHS comes at the same time that U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady denied pleas from supporters of WikiLeaks who had tried to prevent account information pertaining to their Twitter accounts from being provided to federal prosecutors. Jacob Applebaum and others advocates of Julian Assange’s whistleblower site were fighting to keep the government from subpoenaing information on their personal accounts that were collected from Twitter.

Last month the Boston Police Department and the Suffolk Massachusetts District Attorney subpoenaed Twitter over details pertaining to recent tweets involving the Occupy Boston protests.
http://vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t...=spying+tweets
As you well know, data collected by US spying programs, is being shared with foreign governments.

US authorities can spy on the iCloud without a warrant