Twitter stood up for its user before the court of New York

    On Monday, the New York District Criminal Court received a statement from Twitter lawyers requesting a review of a previously issued ruling requiring the service’s administration to disclose the personal details of a user known as Malcolm Harris, whose Twitter account calls for street riots in New York York during the Occupy Wall Street promotion. Twitter insists that state prosecutors misinterpret the Stored Communications Act, according to which an electronic communications provider that transmits and stores information must disclose certain data regarding the provision of its services to a particular person.

    The problems of “Malcolm Harris” began on January 30 this year, when the Twitter administration received an official statement from the New York prosecutor, which, in fact, contained a requirement to disclose personal information about the user and his archive of messages from September 15, 2011. The administration of the service informed the user about the request and filed a request for its judicial cancellation. However, on April 20, Judge Matthew A. Sciarrino sided with the New York Attorney and the decision remained in force.

    In response to this situation, Twitter published its official document stating that, according to the terms of use (ToS), the information that the user sends to the service in one way or another is his property, which the company cannot disclose to anyone should not. True, Twitter lawyers still acknowledge that the user's personal data in some cases may be subject to the Stored Communications Act (a threat to national security, terrorism, etc.), but tweets are the property of the account holder, and their safety and privacy should be unshakable anyway.

    Malcolm Harris himself, along with several hundred other people, is accused of organizing an illegal rally on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York on October 1, 2011 during the Occupy Wall Street rally.

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