An interesting technological case has emerged from the Occupy Wall Street protests of last fall. At issue is whether prosecutors can simply subpoena the tweets of Malcom Harris, one of about 700 protesters arrested last year while walking on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Matthew A. Sciarrino Jr. had already ruled on this once before saying Harris had no jurisdiction to challenge the subpoena because his tweets belonged to Twitter.

The social media company then stepped in and challenged the subpoena on behalf of Harris. Part of their argument was whether authorties would need a judge-issued warrant to attain Twitter records and another part of their argument was that giving Twitter jurisdiction of users’ tweets means the company would have to fight on behalf of their users, which is expensive and burdensome.

Sciarrino decided Twitter should be the one with legal standing and that Tweeting is not private.

“If you post a tweet, just like if you scream it out the window, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy,” Sciarrino wrote in his opinion.

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