WikiLeaks

Tweet Free or Die: In Defense of Occupy Protester, Twitter Fights the Man

Mike Isaac in Social on May 8 at 5:49 pm PT

Twitter’s refusal to acquiesce to government requests for information says something about the company’s stance on privacy.

Live, on Tape, Via the Internet: WikiLeaks, the TV Show

Peter Kafka in Media on April 13 at 5:10 am PT

Move over, Charlie Rose.

Anonymous Fails, Once Again, to Make Its Point

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 20 at 1:58 pm PT

Big as they were, the attacks carried out in revenge for the Megaupload arrests accomplished nothing significant.

Julian Assange on Anonymous

This was a very apolitical group that had absolutely no understanding about the military-industrial complex whatsoever, and no understanding about international finance. As a result of joining our battle and trying to protect themselves, they have come to see that the threats related to Internet freedom come from the military-industrial complex, the banking system and the media.

– Julian Assange, in Rolling Stone, referring to Anonymous

List of Sites Planning SOPA Protests Continues to Grow

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 17 at 3:40 pm PT

As many as 7,000 Web sites are thought to be participating in tomorrow’s anti-SOPA protest by going dark. Here are a few who will — or may — be among them.

News Byte

U.S. Court Orders Twitter Account Opened in WikiLeaks Investigation

Drake Martinet in News on November 12, 2011 at 8:14 am PT

A U.S. district court decided Thursday to grant the Justice Department access to the Twitter account of Birgitta Jonsdottir, Icelandic Minister of Parliament and WikiLeaks volunteer. Federal Judge Liam O’Grady ruled that Twitter users gave up privacy rights, including those to IP address information, when signing up for accounts on the popular microblogging service.

Voices

Feds Can Get Twitter Users’ Data Without Warrant, Judge Says

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on November 11, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Should the government be able to collect information related to your Internet use without a warrant? According to a U.S. District Court opinion in the case of three WikiLeaks associates, it should.

Voices

Financial Problems Could Shut WikiLeaks

Paul Sonne, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 24, 2011 at 11:45 am PT

WikiLeaks said it will shut down by year-end if financial-services companies don’t lift restrictions on donations that have hobbled the organization.

Voices

Secret Orders Target Email

Julia Angwin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 10, 2011 at 3:45 am PT

The U.S. government has obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc. and small Internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.