Julian Assange arrested (merged)

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Like in case of governments, amongst them that of Saudi Arabaia and America, demanding Blackberry to weaken its security protocolls so that governments can overhear the data transmissions done with them, a US court has ordered Twitter to reveal all data on persons that the US knows or just claims to be associated with the Wikileaks affair. The court also ruled it's decision to be kept secret - which meant that the effected people would not have learned about being spied out if Twitter apparently would not have fought back and won a legal battle so that now they were allowed to send emails to these peopel telling them that on the 17th January their private data on their Twitter accounts will be handed over to the US authorities.

Originally Posted by Skybird

Wikileaks assumes - I think correctly - that Google and Facebook also have received secret subpeonas - without resisting like Twitter.

http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/23611515697364992

Goodbye freedom.
Hello Big Brother USA


I have never in my live trusted American politics/politicians, but this is the first time I see them as a real danger we'd be much better off without.