Twitter has defended in court the details of your user

Twitter microblogging network will challenge a court order requiring the transfer of personal data, is accused of street riots last year in New York in the framework of the campaign "Borrow Wall Street." According to available information, it is the user known as Malcolm Harris, who, along with several hundred other people accused of organizing illegal action on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York on October 1, 2011.

The prosecutor's office in New York wants to get from the private archive of Twitter messages from September 15 to December 31, 2011, as well as personal information of the blog owner. Twitter has been involved in this process from 26 January this year. Prosecutors demand from the network delivery of data, in accordance with section 2703 telecommunications law Stored Communications Act, which regulated aspects related to data storage. The law requires the service provider's disclosure of certain types of electronic communications without a court warrant.

In Twitter speak, that on January 30 by Malcolm Harris informed that his data requested by U.S. courts, while also filing a motion to set aside requirement. The judge dismissed the petition on April 20, ruling that blog posts are not subject to the information that is subject to the law.

The memo, released Tuesday, Twitter said that the law Stored Communications Act in the form in which it treats the prosecution, impose "undue burden" on the service provider. In addition, a network of microblogging stated that if the user's personal data can be somehow tied to the law, the posts in the blog are his property and the company can not and should not be their issue.

Also on Twitter saying that before the law, the rule applied only to banks, on financial transactions, but to apply it to social networks would be wrong. Moreover, the famous American First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees the user the right to possess their property, including the content.

The American Civil Liberties Union welcomed the victory of Twitter in court, claiming that the decision of the court - this is a positive signal for all of Western Internet companies.