Birgitta Jónsdóttir is a former WikiLeaks volunteer and is a member of Parliament in Iceland. Recently the courts in the U.S. decided to push for access to her Twitter account because of her involvement with WikiLeaks. Jónsdóttir is furious with the decision of the U.S. government and has decided to take her case to the Council of Europe.

Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, has lost a high court appeal extradition to Sweden to face rape charge allegations. Lord Justice Thomas and Mr. Justice Ouseley handed down the decision for Assange’s appeal against a European arrest warrant that was issued by prosecutors in Sweden. Two Swedish women filed rape and sexual assault charges against Assange during his visit to Stockholm in August 2010.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is now making members of his team sign a nondisclosure agreement that WikiLeak’s own leaked material is their property. “You accept and agree that the information disclosed, or to be disclosed to you pursuant to this agreement is, by its nature, valuable proprietary commercial information,” states the agreement, “the misuse or unauthorized disclosure of which would be likely to cause us considerable damage.” The unauthorized disclosure of WikiLeaks documents will have a penalty of 12 million British pounds ($20 million). Leaks to the press by WikiLeaks loses them the ability to sell the documents to publishers. [Wired]

Yesterday I reported how WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called Facebook the most appalling spy machine ever. He went as far as accusing Facebook of automating a process to provide data to U.S. intelligence when asked for it. Facebook said that these claims are untrue.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is awaiting a trial in Sweden for sexual assault charges and he was recently interviewed by Russia Today. He gave his opinion on the political unrest in Egypt and Libya during the interview. He had especially criticized Facebook as being the most appalling spy machine ever.

Movie director Steven Spielberg has acquired the rights to make a film about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Some of the names that came up to play Assange include Macauly Culkin, Orlando Bloom, and Tilda Swinton.

Wikileaks has hired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz as an adviser about how to handle the Justice Department’s subpoena to retrieve personal information from Twitter. The Justice Department is aiming to collect private communication between Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and Wikileaks volunteers over the leaked cables case. This is interesting because at one point, Dershowitz agreed with Hilary Clinton that Wikileaks was a danger to the U.S. and international diplomacy. [TwitLonger]

The lawyers of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are trying to prevent him from getting extradited to Sweden to face rape charges. The lawyers have pointed out that the Swedish prime minister made some remarks that would prevent Assange from having a fair trial there. Assange’s lawyers pointed out that the Swedish prime minister said Assange is an enemy of the people and is public enemy number one. The Swedish prime minister also said that Assange was opposed to women’s rights, which the lawyers said was a lie. [Huffington Post]