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Here's What Facebook Sends the Cops In Response To a Subpoena

Posted by timothy on from the your-dna-in-a-box dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Facebook already shares its Law Enforcement Guidelines publicly, but we've never actually seen the data Menlo Park sends over to the cops when it gets a formal subpoena for your profile information. Now we know. This appears to be the first time we get to see what a Facebook account report looks like. The document was released by the The Boston Phoenix as part of a lengthy feature titled 'Hunting the Craigslist Killer,' which describes how an online investigation helped officials track down Philip Markoff. The man committed suicide, which meant the police didn't care if the Facebook document was published elsewhere, after robbing two women and murdering a third."

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  1. Unclear antecedents are dangerous! by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The man committed suicide, which meant the police didn't care if the Facebook document was published elsewhere, after robbing two women and murdering a third."

    Indeed, if the cops are going around robbing and murdering, why should any of us worry about a Facebook profile?

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    The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
    1. Re:Unclear antecedents are dangerous! by colinrichardday · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, clearly it was the Facebook document that robbed two women and murdered a third.

  2. Re:Buttholes! Buttholes! Buttholes! Levodopa! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the best argument for browsing at -1 that I have ever seen. Even though it looks like it's machine-generated nonsense, it's still one of the best comments ever made on Slashdot.

  3. Re:Buttholes! Buttholes! Buttholes! Levodopa! by EdIII · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the best argument for browsing at -1 that I have ever seen. Even though it looks like it's machine-generated nonsense, it's still one of the best comments ever made on Slashdot.

    I wholly agree. It reminds me of Vogon poetry. Butthole is used throughout, quite successfully, as a lubricant for the deep prose sprinkled about. Without it, I believe it would make much less sense. While the statement that "God is a dog's anus farting loudly" was quite provocative as a commentary on the meaning of life, it derailed rather quickly with the nonsequiter introduction of a catfish arriving at noon of all times....

    Not the work of a true Vogon master, but I sense much potential.

  4. Re:Buttholes! Buttholes! Buttholes! Levodopa! by Reality+Master+301 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This calls for a new alternative mod point, "+1 Poetic"