Twitter, social media and privacy
There is a plethora of articles about this topic all over the news this week, so we will be brief. Lawmakers are urgently looking at the position whereby social media sites seem to be immune from the law. Twitter has stated it will not censor it’s members that breach injunctions, even if their tweets are in contempt of court and this is making a mockery of the law, whatever you think of the underlying issue of “super injunctions” material being potentially considered to be in contempt of court. Part of the problem for legal enforcement is jurisdictional issues. Twitter is not based in the Uk, so technically is not bound by an injunction under English law. This is becoming a political issue and don’t be surprised if Governments get together to ensure cross jurisdictional application of laws and/or ISP’s may be forced to disclose the identity of users. Watch this space, interesting times !