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Here's How Police Get a Suspect's Facebook Information
- listaware 14y agoThe article only covers the police. I wonder what the potential differences there are that could be in effect for other agencies in the US or international forces. Is there still a real black back door for the right level of clearance ?
- treskot 14y agoWell other international forces could break in to those back doors. Or maybe facebook could gladly allow them in. As they say nobody is above the law!
- mtgx 14y ago"Police need a subpoena in order to access "basic subscriber records" including name, length of service, credit card information, email address(es), and a recent login/logout IP address(es). For the next level of information, including message headers and some IP addresses, a court order is required" Those are the "basic" records?
- treskot 14y ago"For the real bounty -- messages, photos, videos, wall posts, and location information -- a search warrant is required." Wondering why 'credit card information' is considered a basic record!
- gregcohn 14y agoTwitter are fairly transparent in their policies. You should read this if you want to get a sense for how a large social network can operate with "best practices" -- at a level that's practical anyway -- with respect to protecting user information: https://support.twitter.com/articles/41949-guidelines-for-law-enforcement https://support.twitter.com/articles/41949-guidelines-for-la.... Of particular interest is their link to http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2705 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2705, the part of the Stored Communications Act that allows a gov't entity to prevent the network from telling the end user about investigations under certain rules. You should also take a look at the EFF's best practices stuff, such as https://www.eff.org/wp/osp https://www.eff.org/wp/osp (dated).