A local authority in Britain had demanded Twitter to provide them with some users' details as it made the request to the the US microblogging site in the court of California. This step was taken for the first time ever, in a case from Britain. South Tyneside Council of northeast England has taken all necessary steps required to lodge an official application in the legal boundaries to investigate and acquire the identity of an anonymous blogger, entitled with the cyber name "My Monkey", who has apparently passed slanderous statements against the councilors.
Image via CrunchBase The spokesperson, Paul Robinson, declared on behalf of the council that "Twitter has released information to our lawyers and this is currently being analyzed by technical experts." The information required was delivered to the council after it had dragged Twitter in to a court in California, the hometown of the service.
Analysts are suspecting that this ruling could be the result of footballer Ryan Giggs’s case, whose lawyers had previously insisted in front of the British courts that Twitter should disclose the identity of the user which has allegedly defied the court orders.
A councilor of South Tyneside, Ahmed Khan, revealed that Twitter has informed him, that his complete details have been acquired by the local authorities. The website has delivered the information which the user submitted while signing up for the service like mobile phone numbers and email addresses, along with the list of IP addresses used. Khan has the suspicion that along with the details of his two accounts, the details of total five account have been communicated to the council by Twitter authorities.
Khan denied all the accusations imposing him as the blogger writing the "Mr Monkey" website. He said that "I'm the kind of person who will tell you face-to-face what I think. I have no need to use an anonymous blog." According to Mark Stephens, a media lawyer, this case is very unique from the routine cases, he claimed "I am unaware of any other occasion where somebody from this country has actually gone to America and launched proceedings in a Californian court to force Twitter to release the identities of individuals." He also added further that "the implications are that people who have had their name released can actually now go to California and begin proceedings."
Ryan Giggs is already being accredited as the sportsman who had won the uneasy injunction to ban the British media from reporting about his alleged extramarital affair.
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