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 […]