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A lot of comments here about ‘overreach’ ‘privacy violations’ and such as if the FBI is showing up and accusing these people of crimes. If you actually read the

A lot of comments here about ‘overreach’ ‘privacy violations’ and such as if the FBI is showing up and accusing these people of crimes. If you actually read the story, the one person who they quote explains they weren’t suspected of anything but the agents asked for any photos they had of the events. This is straight up classic police legwork...

throwaway_kufu 6y ago
classic police work...always starts with contacting a person of interest and saying “your not a suspect, we just want you to come down and answer a few questions.” If you don’t, it’s suspicious and they will continuing investigating you as a person of interest. If you do, they will conclude you were suspiciously nervous and begin building by their case. Now they show up to your house telling you they “pinged” your phone near a suspected crime “but your not a suspect, we just want to see the pictures on your phone”. Refuse to show them, and they already know you posted one or more (maybe subsequently deleted it) and maybe it’s obstruction of justice. Deny you have any, and it’s lying to law enforcement.
- pnw_hazor 6y ago
  And if you make a mistake on a date or location, you are open to be charged with a making false statements -- a felony if you do it a federal agent.
  - exhilaration 6y ago
    Why is this downvoted? It's completely true.
akira2501 6y ago
> This is straight up classic police legwork... Which may be built on the back of a massive privacy violation. Should location data be made available to the government when they don't have a warrant? Should they be allowed to "go fishing" with our data? > they weren’t suspected of anything but the agents asked for any photos they had of the events. There are plenty of other methods available to the FBI to achieve this goal.

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A lot of comments here about ‘overreach’ ‘privacy violations’ and such as if the FBI is showing up and accusing these people of crimes. If you actually read the

by djrogers 6y ago

throwaway_kufu 6y ago
classic police work...always starts with contacting a person of interest and saying “your not a suspect, we just want you to come down and answer a few questions.” If you don’t, it’s suspicious and they will continuing investigating you as a person of interest. If you do, they will conclude you were suspiciously nervous and begin building by their case. Now they show up to your house telling you they “pinged” your phone near a suspected crime “but your not a suspect, we just want to see the pictures on your phone”. Refuse to show them, and they already know you posted one or more (maybe subsequently deleted it) and maybe it’s obstruction of justice. Deny you have any, and it’s lying to law enforcement.
- pnw_hazor 6y ago
  And if you make a mistake on a date or location, you are open to be charged with a making false statements -- a felony if you do it a federal agent.
  - exhilaration 6y ago
    Why is this downvoted? It's completely true.
akira2501 6y ago
> This is straight up classic police legwork... Which may be built on the back of a massive privacy violation. Should location data be made available to the government when they don't have a warrant? Should they be allowed to "go fishing" with our data? > they weren’t suspected of anything but the agents asked for any photos they had of the events. There are plenty of other methods available to the FBI to achieve this goal.