Today on the Guardian website one story that caught my eye was that of a former WikiLeaks volunteer, Birgitta Jonsdottir, who was fighting legal action to stop the US government gaining access to, rather obscurely, all her private messages on Twitter.
Birgitta Jonsdottir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, said last night on Twitter that the "USA government wants to know about all my tweets and more since november 1st 2009. Do they realize I am a member of parliament in Iceland?"
Although most of Twitter's messages are public, some can be sent privately and with her involvement in WikiLeaks it is these they are interested in.
The Guardian writes: "She said she was starting a legal fight to stop the US getting hold of her messages, after being told by Twitter that a subpoena had been issued. She wrote: 'department of justice are requesting twitter to provide the info – I got 10 days to stop it via legal process before twitter hands it over.'"
Full story here ---> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/08/us-twitter-hand-icelandic-wikileaks-messages?CMP=twt_fd
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