New York prosecutors ask Twitter to reveal Occupy Wall Street man's tweets

[Judi Lynn]

New York prosecutors ask Twitter to reveal Occupy Wall Street man's tweets
Twitter agrees not to comply with subpoena from district attorney's office while protester's lawyer prepares rebuttal
Reuters in New York
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 1 February 2012 16.27 EST

Prosecutors have subpoenaed the Twitter records of an Occupy Wall Street protester who was arrested in October during a mass protest on the Brooklyn Bridge.

The 26 January subpoena from the Manhattan district attorney's office seeks "user information, including email address," along with three months' worth of tweets from @destructuremal, the Twitter handle for Malcolm Harris.

Harris, 23, a freelance writer and editor who lives in Brooklyn, said on Tuesday that Twitter sent a copy of the subpoena to him on Monday. He posted it on Twitter.

"When you get an email from Twitter Legal, you assume it's a phishing scam, trying to get your password," he said. "It turned out that it is a phishing scam, but it's from the prosecutors."

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/01/prosecutors-ask-twitter-for-occupy-tweets

[Uncle Joe]

1. I hope Mr. Harris wins his case.

Thanks for the thread, Judi Lynn.

[EFerrari]

2. I hope these bastards lose big.

[leveymg]

3. "A phishing scam from the prosecutor's office." That's actually clever. Think I'll read his

on-line work, as much as I loathe the idea of Twitter.

[gopiscrap]

4. Occupy and Mr. Harris needs to fight this

and if they win, then sue the shit out of the NY prosecutors office for malicious harrassment and prosecution.