A new U.S. law-enforcement tool: Facebook searches

Move to China FB – you can no longer call yourself American.

We haven’t been “American” for a long time,,, we’re just suckers and the govt’s lucky we believe in this facade that we live free so we haven’t revolted yet like the Arab Spring.

Of course, the only examples that were disclosed were ones where the defendants were found guilty. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuspect.

Shame on you, Facebook. Helping to apprehend and prosecute violent criminals when presented with a valid warrant. Tsk, tsk. We’re obviously among the worst dictatorships on history.

(Morons.)

Another reason (as if I needed one) to never join Facebook.

I think there should at least be a law that your data has been accessed.

Apparently, prosecutors can use hearsay, as in “undisclosed informants,” now. All evidence must be revealed to both sides in a trial according to law, which obviously doesn’t matter anymore.

for the benefit of those not familiar with U.S. search warrants: ALL warrants must be issued (based) on probable cause, which you must lay out in your affidavit. The judge, will then sign it if he or she feels youy have cause. You can always request to not have your warrant disclosed to the holder of that info, if it may compromise your investigation. Although this article focuses on Federal investigations, warrants at the state and local levels have been done at a greater amount. One can “Hobbs” a part of the warrant that deals with confidential informants or information (based on case law of Hobbs) but that is up to the judge to determine what info is available to the defendant and ultimately allowed in trial. I find it difficult to believe the defense attorneys were not made aware of the warrant findings beforehand. They must have asked themselves were all the incriminating information was coming from…

@mgunn : Agreed, a revolution is much better than a war, a revolution serves people not those who rule over them.