US Court Rules Twitter Data Of Wikileaks Associates No Longer Private

A US court ruled on Thursday that the Twitter accounts of three people associated with Wikileaks must be handed over to the federal government.

In a case that has been in the courts since January, three individuals reportedly connected to Wikileaks have been fighting to keep their tweets private from the US Justice Department.

However, as Wired reports, a US District Court Judge has just released a 60 page opinion upholding an earlier ruling in the prosecution’s favor.

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