August 08, 2012
In the Media
Court Prompts Twitter to Give Data to Police in Threat
Case
By Wendy Ruderman
The New York Times
August 7, 2012
Excerpt:
Larry Cunningham, an associate professor
and associate dean at St. John’s University School of Law in
Queens, said he agreed that Twitter should have cooperated without
a court order.
“Social media is of increasing importance
to law enforcement and criminal prosecutions,” said Mr. Cunningham,
a former criminal prosecutor. “In general, social media outlets do
a very good job of cooperating with authorities, but in this case,
however, Twitter should have given the information without a court
order under their emergency procedures policy. The threats were
clear enough.”
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Dean Cunningham also appeared in an August 8, 2012
CBS This Morning segment on the Twitter subpoena.