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Toronto Police Use Facebook Picture in Online Lineup

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-your-privacy-settings dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A 28-year-old woman was recently accused of assault and arrested based on a thumbnail photo from her profile pic on Facebook. Artist Lizz Aston was identified in a lineup after police used a picture from her Facebook profile. From the article: 'In an interview she said, "I told the officer I was at an art opening for a friend, then went home with my boyfriend because he injured his knee. We stayed in for the rest of the night and I did research on the computer for an art installation I was working on. The officer didn't care ... I don't think the police looked into it further." Aston said, the officer "read me my rights. I was searched, finger printed and processed."'"

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  1. Myspace by smc170 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Use Myspace! You could throw someone off a bridge and nobody would ever look there!

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    1. Re:Myspace by gstrickler · · Score: 4, Funny

      MySpace is the first place I would to find someone who has thrown people off bridges.

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  2. Re:mistake #1 by superwiz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why mistake? Yesterday she was an unknown artist. Today she got her name on Slashdot.

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  3. Could be worse.... by BLKMGK · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you lived in the US apparently you would be strip searched to top off the evening...

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  4. Re:Police lineups are a sham by bitt3n · · Score: 5, Funny

    if you went into a lineup and got chosen as the criminal you got a free golf club.

    my department does this, and you're absolutely right about how bad people are at identifying perps. you wouldn't believe how many homicides I had to pull off before I got my goddamn nine iron.

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  5. Re:mistake #1 by proverbialcow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why mistake? Yesterday she was an unknown artist. Today she got her name on Slashdot.

    ...the hub of taste-makers and cognoscenti of the art world.

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  6. Re:mistake #1 by proverbialcow · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh great, now you had to go and make it erotic.

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  7. Re:Mistake #0 by Grimbleton · · Score: 4, Funny

    He said, posting on Slashdot.