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If the government can demand records for "an investigation to ensure compliance with duties, taxes and fines and other customs and immigration matters", they ca
by incompatible 10y ago
If the government can demand records for "an investigation to ensure compliance with duties, taxes and fines and other customs and immigration matters", they can demand records for anyone else with similarly vague justifications. It's fortunate that there are organizations like Twitter willing to take a stand against it, I guess many others would just hand over the data.
- LeifCarrotson 10y agoThere are legitimate, appropriate ways for the government to subpoena, court order, and issue warrants for certain records from social media like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and HN. For some insight into this process, Reddit just published their 2016 Transparency Report: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/transparency/2016 https://www.reddit.com/wiki/transparency/2016 They complied with some 60% of them, finding the others invalid (and, notably, not being proven wrong in that regard). It's shocking to me that agents of the government so regularly abuse the trust placed in them to make illegitimate requests of these corporations.
- rm_-rf_slash 10y agoFew people actually gets punished for abusing public trust so it really shouldn't be much of a surprise at all.