Users never know
US coppers are getting warrants for detailed access to users' Facebook accounts without their knowledge.
According to Reuters, since 2008, federal judges have authorised at least two dozen warrants to search individuals' Facebook accounts to the FBI, DEA and ICE. The investigations range from arson to rape to terrorism.
Facebook gives the cops a detailed package of profile and photo information that is not even available to users themselves.
It looks like the cops are getting so addicted to the amount of useful data that they can get from these profiles that they are hitting the courts for more warrants. Federal agencies were granted at least 11 warrants to search Facebook since the beginning of 2011, double the number for all of 2010.
However, that figure may be much higher becase some records are sealed.
Facebook's chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, told Reuters that Facebook was sensitive to user privacy and that it regularly pushes back against law-enforcement "fishing expeditions".
But Reuters hacks found that none of the warrants discovered in the review have been challenged on the grounds that it violated a person's Fourth Amendment protection against unlawful search and seizure.
This is alarming constitutional-law experts who think this is because the defendants and their "friends" never knew about them.
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Source: techeye.net
By: Nick Farrell
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