[LINK] U.S. Law Enforcement Obtaining Secret Warrants to Search Facebook Profiles

[Kim Holburn]

Fox unfortunately.  24 warrants doesn't seem like much although the "without their knowledge" bit doesn't seem so good.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/12/us-law-enforcement-obtain-warrants-to-search-facebook-profiles/

> U.S. Law Enforcement Obtaining Warrants to Search Facebook Profiles
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> NEW YORK –  U.S. law-enforcement agencies are increasingly obtaining warrants to search Facebook, often gaining detailed access to users' accounts without their knowledge.
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> A Reuters review of the Westlaw legal database shows that since 2008, federal judges have authorized at least two dozen warrants to search individuals' Facebook accounts. Many of the warrants requested a laundry list of personal data such as messages, status updates, links to videos and photographs, calendars of future and past events, "Wall postings" and "rejected Friend requests."



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