- From: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:22:14 +0000
- To: "eGov IG (Public)" <public-egov-ig@w3.org>
One of the discussions during the face to face meeting the other day concerned elected officials' use of social media. Many western legislators now routinely tweet from the floor of their house. We discussed whether such public statements should or should not be part of the public record - probably above our pay grades - but suppose they, or anyone, wanted to archive their Tweets and other social media: how would they do it? But the news about Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir having her Twitter account forced open by the US courts raised another issue in my mind. In Britain, MPs in the House of Commons are protected under something called Parliamentary Privilege which means they can say what they like without fear of prosecution for slander/defamation (or anything else). That may be a legal rather than a tech matter, but, *if* we do look at this issue (and I would find it fascinating personally), then it's the kind of thing we might have to bear in mind. What I actually have in mind for this group, potentially, is a best practices doc that talks about archiving of social media updates and tries to distil common points from the various codes of conduct springing up in parliaments around the world. Just ruminating... Phil. [1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/11/us-verdict-privacy-wikileaks-twitter -- Phil Archer W3C eGovernment http://www.w3.org/egov/ http://philarcher.org @philarcher1
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