Be Careful What You Put On Social Media?

Report says content might cause problems later with the law

Let’s face it. Most people who use social media these days put just about anything and everything up on a Facebook or MySpace account without giving it a second thought.

Names, dates, places, where they’ve been, where they are going to be, what they just bought, who their friends are, photos of darned near everything, what they eat, where they eat, opinions on everything, the works.

But few give pause to think about the ways that could work against them if they ever have a problem with the law down the road.

Why might that be an issue?

Because U.S. law-enforcement agencies are increasingly getting warrants to search Facebook, “often gaining detailed access to users' accounts without their knowledge,” according to a new report by Fox news.

One review of the Westlaw legal database by a news service shows that since 2008, federal judges have authorized at least two dozen warrants to search individuals' Facebook accounts and, “many of the warrants requested a laundry list of personal data such as messages, status updates, links to videos and photographs, calendars of future and past events, "Wall postings" and "rejected Friend requests."


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Source: skyvalleychronicle.com