Per chi fosse interessato, qualche settimana fa avevo abbordato la questione riferendomi a Twitter in un breve articolo su Medialaws... [...]Another interesting episode recently involved Twitter in an indirect way. Indeed, a bizarre accident shed light on the nature of tweets and on the limits to freedom of expression that one has to take into consideration.The unfortunate event involved a couple of Irish tourists who were stopped and handcuffed at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) because of their “suspicious” tweets. Indeed, as many other social networks, Twitter is monitored by a considerable number of U.S. special agents that were – probably disproportionately – alerted when they figured out that Mr. Leigh Van Bryan, an Irishman, was tweeting:“Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America” [....] http://www.medialaws.eu/to-tweet-or-not-to-tweet-that-is-the-question/ Buona lettura e buona giornata! Luca Belli Doctorant en Droit PublicCERSA,Université Panthéon-AssasSorbonne University Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:45:52 -0500 From: demartin@polito.it To: nexa@server-nexa.polito.it Subject: [nexa] "THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY IS SEARCHING YOUR FACEBOOK AND TWITTER FOR THESE WORDS" THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY IS SEARCHING YOUR FACEBOOK AND TWITTER FOR THESE WORDS The Department of Homeland Security monitors your updates on social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, to uncover “Items Of Interest” (IOI), according to an internal DHS document released by the EPIC. That document happens to include a list of the baseline terms for which the DHS–or more specifically, a DHS subcontractor hired to monitor social networks–use to generate real-time IOI reports. (Although the released PDF is generally all reader-selectable text, the list of names was curiously embedded as an image of text, preventing simple indexing. We’ve fixed that below.) [...] Continua qui: http://animalnewyork.com/2012/02/the-department-of-homeland-security-is-sear... _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list nexa@server-nexa.polito.it https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa