The Sunday Telegraph claims that Twitter has handed over the personal details of British users, setting what the paper claims could be an important precedent in at least one other high-profile case.
The case in question involves councillors from South Tyneside who claim they were libelled on the social network. The Telegraph tells us:
"For the first time, [Twitter] has bowed to a court action brought by a British group complaining that they were libelled in messages. The individuals who brought the legal action were councillors at a local authority, South Tyneside.
"They launched the case in an attempt to unmask an anonymous whistle-blower who calls himself Mr Monkey..."
You can read more about the background to this story over at the Shields Gazette. In the meantime, we wait to see how any precedent might be applied - if at all.
For more on this subject, see:
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Injunctions v Twitter: The legal view
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