Here's How Police Get a Suspect's Facebook Information(mashable.com)

Here's How Police Get a Suspect's Facebook Information

http://mashable.com/2012/12/18/police-facebook/

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Twitter 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-la....

Of particular interest is their link to 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 (dated).

listaware14 anni fa

The 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 ?

treskot14 anni fa

Well 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!

mtgx14 anni fa

"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?

treskot14 anni fa

"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!