Super Injunction

UK NEWS: TWITTER WILL NOTIFY USERS ACCUSED OF GAGGING ORDER BREACHES

May 25, 2011

Via The Guardian Twitter will notify its users before handing their personal information to UK authorities seeking to prosecute them over alleged breaches of privacy injunctions, a senior executive at the company said on Thursday. Asked about the escalating dispute over gagging orders in Britain, Twitter’s general manager of European operations, Tony Wang, said: “Platforms should have responsibility not to defend the user, but to protect that user’s right to defend him or herself.” Twitter was thrown into the centre of the […]

UK NEWS: RYAN GIGGS NAMED BY MP AS INJUNCTION FOOTBALLER

May 23, 2011

Thousands of pounds spent on securing this ridiculous super injunction. What a waste of money. Ryan Giggs probably wants to strangle his slippery lawyer right now, who knew that the footballer’s identity would be revealed at some point, and that taking out an injunction was a waste of time and money. Via BBC News A married footballer named on Twitter as having an injunction over an alleged affair with a reality TV star has been identified in Parliament as Ryan Giggs. Lib […]