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As Twitter is archived in the Library of Congress, any tweets and their metadata is, should, and can be public record... presuming your profile is marked public
by GauntletWizard 14y ago
As Twitter is archived in the Library of Congress, any tweets and their metadata is, should, and can be public record... presuming your profile is marked public. Information that is not publicly displayed, such as e-mail, phone number, etc, is what should be protected - and it seems the courts have yet again failed us, granting an overly broad request for discovery.
Here's the question I've not seen answered - Were Mr. Harris's tweets private? If not, I really see no problem with identifying his words and the public portion of his location (I believe twitter only presents a few, not the full, significant digits of geodata). It's both more reliable and less invasive than asking local businesses "Did this man shop here?" which is a tried-and-true police tactic.
- sneak 14y agoTwitter logs the IP address of every single access to the site (though it is not made public on the web). IP address + timestamp + ISP subpoena == physical location. Also, you can bet that Twitter is internally storing all those significant location digits, even if they don't publish them. This is the troubling part.