Twitter-WikiLeaks case a test of press and privacy rights on

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Twitter-WikiLeaks case a test of press and privacy rights online
Dwayne Winseck and Patrick McCurdy
Globe and Mail Update
Published Thursday, May. 17, 2012 11:45AM EDT
Two weeks ago Birgitta Jonsdottir, the self-styled activist Member of Parliament from Iceland and central figure in the important and ongoing Twitter-WikiLeaks cases, was in Ottawa. We sent her a tweet, got a quick reply, then met to talk about whistle-blowers, privacy and the role of the free press in the age of the Internet.

Ms. Jonsdottir is one of the co-producers of Collateral Murder, a selectively edited video that documents a U.S. military helicopter gunning down two Reuters staff and several others in the streets of Baghdad. The distribution of the video over the Internet in April 2010 shed light on events that the U.S. military had not disclosed and marked the beginning of WikiLeaks’ campaign to release what would be the largest cache of U.S. classified material the world has ever seen. ................http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/tec ... le2435723/