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Twitter won a legal battle to protect its customers from a secret US gagging order (Photo: respres)

US anti-Twitter subpoena fuels data privacy debate

by Valentina Pop, Brussels,

A court order potentially giving US security services access to data on all 637,000 people who follow the WikiLeaks Twitter account has added fuel to the fire of an EU debate on data retention.

The online short-message service Twitter on Friday (7 January) announced it won a legal battle to disclose that the US has issued a court order seeking private information on WikiLeaks founder Julian A...

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Twitter won a legal battle to protect its customers from a secret US gagging order (Photo: respres)

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