Who owns your tweets? What about all that personal information you’ve given Twitter? Or tweets you deleted? Or drafts you saved?

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Those questions are the focus of a battle Twitter is waging with a New York State judge.

Twitter says that its users own their tweets, and all that personal information. The court says Twitter does, and should hand them over when subpoenaed. This week Twitter has filed an appeal to New York Supreme Court, the second time it’s filed a motion in this case.

Bottom line: Twitter says that it makes it clear in its terms of services that users own their content and they have “a right to fight invalid government requests,” i.e. subpoenas.

Twitter’s appeal argues that users have a property right to the content they post and have a Fourth Amendment privacy right to their accounts. The company says that deleted Tweets are not public, and that Twitter accounts should have the same protection as personal email accounts. Click here to read Twitter’s appeal.

The Judge Matthew A. Sciarrino Jr. wrote in an April decision, “By design, Twitter has an open method of communication,” noting that in its Privacy Policy Twitter informs users that what “you say on Twitter may be viewed all around the world instantly.” (Read More: Why Twitter Will Live and Facebook Will Die.)

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