Standoff over social media passwords breaks new legal ground

6 07 2015

Standoff over social media passwords breaks new legal ground

HOUSTON >> A Texas man used social media to promote his gun store, posting politically charged messages that criticized the president and promoted Second Amendment rights.

But after losing ownership of his suburban Houston store in bankruptcy, Jeremy Alcede spent nearly seven weeks in jail for refusing a federal judge’s order to share with the new owner the passwords of the business’ Facebook and Twitter accounts, which the judge had declared property.

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