Government Pressures Twitter to Hand Over Keys to Occupy Wall Street Protester's Location Data Without a Warrant

"And yet on the basis of a charge no more consequential than speeding ticket, the New York City District Attorney's office sent a poorly worded subpoena to Twitter requesting 'any and all user information, including email address, as well as any and all tweets posted for the period of 9/15/2011-12/31/2011' regarding Mr. Harris' Twitter account, @destructuremal. Unsurprisingly, the government wanted to keep it quiet, but thankfully Twitter didn't listen. Instead, as it has consistently warned law enforcement, Twitter notified Mr. Harris, who through his lawyer, Martin Stolar of the National Lawyers Guild, has moved to challenge the subpoena in court."