I would assume that any internet platform that offers Direct/Private messages between users has the ability to access those messages. Who doesn't know this?
While the site does, they still need to hand them over to the government. Most sites still pretend like they aren't just openly giving them up for free, and still require some amount of warrant before they do so.
So its not really surprising, its confirming what was obvious but not 102% certain.
The US Government had people at Twitter, so of course they has had access to messages. Not that they needed people at Twitter to gain access to such things.
Why is anyone surprised by this?
I would assume that any internet platform that offers Direct/Private messages between users has the ability to access those messages. Who doesn't know this?
While the site does, they still need to hand them over to the government. Most sites still pretend like they aren't just openly giving them up for free, and still require some amount of warrant before they do so.
So its not really surprising, its confirming what was obvious but not 102% certain.
The US Government had people at Twitter, so of course they
hashad access to messages. Not that they needed people at Twitter to gain access to such things.