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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: I_B_Perky on June 29, 2014, 12:02:14 AM
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Seems OS is lamenting government intrusion re facebook.
The OP:
Omaha Steve (40,744 posts)
Facebook: NYC prosecutors got data on 381 users
Source: AP-Excite
By JENNIFER PELTZ
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors building a sweeping disabilities-benefit fraud case got a trove of data from the Facebook accounts of more than 380 people, the social media giant said this week as it disclosed a nearly yearlong legal fight over the largest set of search warrants it has ever received.
Facebook ultimately turned over the information but is appealing the court order that required it to do so, saying prosecutors intruded on users' privacy. The Manhattan district attorney's office and a judge have said the search warrants were justified.
The dispute adds to a roster of clashes between authorities and Internet companies over law enforcement efforts to scrutinize people's online lives for potential evidence.
"It's part of a trend toward more aggressive challenges by Internet providers on behalf of their customers," said Orin Kerr, a George Washington University law professor who specializes in issues surrounding computers and crime.
The link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014835594 (http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014835594)
Big government dummies should support this. It's fraud after all, right? Like evading taxes?
Hestia (2,141 posts)
1. Quit putting your life out there for the world to see! Problem solved!
My DH & I aren't even link, and do not have the same town listed. I haven't uploaded pics in years since FB owns them once you upload them. Forget that noise.
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! Says the dummie.
Shrike47 (1,749 posts)
2. If you post it on Facebook, it's fair game.
When I was an attorney for the state, we routinely looked at Facebook entries about our cases. Why not? And people frequently disclose information they probably don't want those who are adverse to them to know.
For heaven's sake, keep it to yourself. You don't need to post your whole life.
Paging LFR. Paging LFR. Please pick up the pay phone by the convenient store!
cynzke (407 posts)
3. Damn Right They Should....
if it catches fraud.
My mole? You decide!
freshwest (42,948 posts)
5. Anyone expecting privacy on the notorious one-way street Facebook will be sorely disappointed.
Like DU? :whistling:
George II (4,294 posts)
7. If someone is using my "property" (i.e., website) to commit a crime, I'd certainly help.....
...to prosecute him.
Would you? I think not.
frazzled (11,656 posts)
8. So you think Facebook should be like a Swiss bank account?
Where people go to hide ill-gotten gains or avoid taxes ... and we can't prosecute the criminals because those banks won't give out any information?
Didn't you guys watch Wolf of Wall Street?
Getting valid search warrants to investigate a crime when probable cause is present is fair game. Just because something is "on the Internet" doesn't mean that it is immune from searches. Before, police or the FBI could get a warrant to search your personal papers, phone records, bank accounts, etc. Now we have to add the Internet to the tools investigators have to prosecute criminal activity. New technology is not immune. The internet is not an offshore tax shelter for your shenanigans.
I can neither confirm nor deny... :whistling:
Trillo (7,660 posts)
13. Actually, that's a very good point of hypocrisy.
Why should the wealthiest be able to hide information from investigators, if nobody else can? And if nobody else can hide information, why should the wealthiest be so allowed via their special offshore accounts?
Obeekaybee. The rich hide their stuff in an offshore account not posted on the internet... supposedly... and someone posts shit on the internet and only the weathly can hide info? :mental:
I could just not resist...
Trillo (7,660 posts)
12. One example
"The internet is not an offshore tax shelter for your shenanigans."
Small campfire. That's it.
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Only 381?
Hell, I thought from what the Du'ers claim that Zuckerberg was in cahoots to capture all of our Facebook data to share with the government.
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This primitive offers the best advice possible, although one doubts the other primitives'll heed it:
Hestia (2,141 posts) Sat Jun 28, 2014, 06:12 AM
1. Quit putting your life out there for the world to see! Problem solved!
My DH & I aren't even link, and do not have the same town listed. I haven't uploaded pics in years since FB owns them once you upload them. Forget that noise.
But why bother being in facebook at all, and lying about who one is?
Why not just not use facebook at all?
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Prosecutors building a sweeping disabilities-benefit fraud case
Well, I can certainly see why that strikes fear into the heart of a DUmmie.
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Well, I can certainly see why that strikes fear into the heart of a DUmmie.
Uh, especially the big guy.
If he doesn't get a first-class seat aboard the disability gravy train by the time he retires, he's going to think life cheated him.....again.
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He'll never give up hope of winning the big lotto in life . Anyone that expects privacy from a public forum and goes about posting everything they do online deserves what they get including losing benefits they are not entitled to and any jail time that goes with it.
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Uh, especially the big guy.
If he doesn't get a first-class seat aboard the disability gravy train by the time he retires, he's going to think life cheated him.....again.
Time's running out.
Just a few more months.
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 09:30 AM
Star Member Omaha Steve (40,790 posts)
19. Marta only has to put up with it until I retire December 5th
There are the every other weekends I work. Fridays I'm off every other week. Same with Tuesdays. So it isn't an every day thing.
Really no difference. The big guy's been on the public dole for years.
From riding that little catbird seat over the incoming sewage at the treatment plant, plucking out used condoms, to his current plum job of scrubbing puke out of police cruisers, the big guy has never been a real productive employee.
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From riding that little catbird seat over the incoming sewage at the treatment plant, plucking out used condoms, to his current plum job of scrubbing puke out of police cruisers, the big guy has never been a real productive employee.
Not true, GOBUCKS--someone has to do those things. Why not Steve? :whistling:
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Not true, GOBUCKS--someone has to do those things. Why not Steve? :whistling:
:lol:
How does he squeeze his fat ass into the back of a cruiser to get the barf out of the nooks and crannies?
Or does he just run it by the fire department and use the hose?
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He'll never give up hope of winning the big lotto in life . Anyone that expects privacy from a public forum and goes about posting everything they do online deserves what they get including losing benefits they are not entitled to and any jail time that goes with it.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBEXSiFzOfU[/youtube]
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Not true, GOBUCKS--someone has to do those things. Why not Steve?
Steve's one of those union drones who spends his entire career on light duty.
Most of the time at the sewer plant he was making condom-plucking money, but claimed the plucker was too heavy, or the catbird seat too hard for his tender back.