Monday, January 10, 2011

Iceland summons US ambassador to explain Twitter case


Some outside of Iceland have argued that the US warrant includes all 637,000 WikiLeaks followers on Twitter. I don't remember hearing that all readers of the NY Times were under investigation during any of their top secret reports. The Guardian:

Birgitta Jónsdóttir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, revealed last week that the US justice department had asked Twitter to hand over her information. The US authorities are trying to build a criminal case against the website after its huge leaks of classified US information.

"[It is] very serious that a foreign state, the United States, demands such personal information of an Icelandic person, an elected official," the interior minister, Ogmundur Jonasson, told Icelandic broadcaster RUV. "This is even more serious when put [in] perspective and concerns freedom of speech and people's freedom in general," he added.

Iceland's foreign ministry has demanded a meeting with Luis Arreaga, the US ambassador to Reykjavík. No one at the US embassy in Reykjavík was available for comment.

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