Right, that's why I brought up the issue about the lack of warrant/court order. The agency involved are idiots and should have completely expected this if they

Right, that's why I brought up the issue about the lack of warrant/court order. The agency involved are idiots and should have completely expected this if they didn't send Facebook a court order. (I've now edited my post to make that clearer.) I'm just trying to argue that, I think, in a grand theoretical sense, this sort of behavior is not necessarily unethical of law enforcement agencies if they send a signed court order and work with an ethical contractor instead of NSO or Black Cube or whoever.