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[ NNSquad ] How Facebook Secretly Aids Government Searches
How Facebook Secretly Aids Government Searches
http://j.mp/n6bU12 (Forbes)
"It turns out that users may never realize their social media accounts
were searched even if they are charged with a crime. Reuters went
through years of court filings to dig up actual evidence of tech
companies complying with law enforcement subpoenas without alerting
their users."
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These issues actually fall into several categories. First, as we've
discussed many times before, companies must obey the laws where they
are, but also typically can choose whether or not to do business in
any given locale. They also can "fight back" against overly broad
demands for information, and especially not provide data on a "nod and
a wink" basis without due process. But also I believe it is very
important that unless the specific legal process involved prohibits
notifying users when their data is being provided to authorities as a
result of such demands, in the vast majority of cases those users
*should* be so notified.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
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