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Twitter recently released its bi-annual transparency report, detailing the number of requests that the company has received from governments for user information or to take down content. According to the report, the company received 1,157 requests for user information in the first six months of 2013, the highest amount since Twitter began releasing its report. … Continue Reading
Earlier this week, Twitter appealed a New York state judge’s ruling that required the company to produce an Occupy Wall Street protestor’s tweets, email address, and certain subscriber information. The trial court judge had reasoned that the public nature of Twitter meant that the defendant lacked privacy interests in his tweets and that the government’s … Continue Reading
Twitter has announced that it will appeal a New York state judge’s ruling that the company must hand over an Occupy Wall Street protestor’s tweets to the Manhattan district attorney. The defendant was charged with disorderly conduct for his participation in a protest march in October 1, 2011. Following that incident, the district attorney subpoenaed … Continue Reading
by David Fagan and Alex Berengaut On November 10, 2011, Judge Liam O’Grady of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued a 60-page memorandum opinion in a dispute over the validity of a special court order issued to Twitter for non-content records for certain users connected to the government’s Wikileaks … Continue Reading
New York start-up SocialGuide has launched from beta and released its first television ratings report this week, based on information mined and filtered from more than 10.5 million social media comments by more than 2.6 million unique users. This report, the Social100, gets most of its information from Facebook and Twitter, using application programming interface (“API”) streams to capture … Continue Reading
Your company has just launched an innovative new social media service, and you’ve received fanfare from the press, increased website traffic, and a spike in advertising revenues. In short, the service is a complete success — until you’re served with a class action complaint seeking millions of dollars in damages and a civil investigative demand … Continue Reading
The Office of Fair Trading, the UK’s answer to the FTC, has established its position on paid-for plugging on social media websites. According to an announcement issued last month by the OFT relating to an enforcement action pursued against a small UK media firm, online advertising and marketing that fails to disclose that it contains paid-for promotions … Continue Reading
