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[ PRIVACY Forum ] OWS protester doesn't own his tweets, judge rules
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OWS protestor doesn't own his tweets, judge rules
http://j.mp/ID36Rk (Paid Content)
In a candid ruling, a New York judge said a protester can't stop
prosecutors from searching his Twitter account because he doesn't own
the tweets in the first place. Judge Matthew Sciarrino Jr. cited a
"widely-believed" but "mistaken" notion about online privacy rights
and said that search and seizure protections don't apply because we
"do not have a 'physical' home on the Internet."
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