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/1014835594Big 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?
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...
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?
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.
