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DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com)
During the protests over the inauguration of Donald Trump, more than 230 protestors were arrested -- many of which were charged with rioting and had their phones seized by Washington, D.C., police. One of the individuals who was arrested received an email from Facebook's "Law Enforcement Response Team," which raises the question: Did D.C. police ask Facebook to reveal information about this arrestee? CityLab reports: In an emailed response to CityLab's request for more information, Rachel Reid, a spokesperson for the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, responded that "MPD does not comment on investigative tactics." The District of Columbia United States Attorney's Office -- the agency leading the prosecution of Inauguration protesters -- has not yet responded to CityLab's inquiry. CityLab also asked Facebook about the email. "We don't comment on individual requests," company spokesperson Jay Nancarrow said. He referred CityLab to the site's law enforcement guidelines page and to its Government Requests Report database, where the public can see how many legal processes it receives from countries worldwide. According to this database, U.S. law enforcement requested information on the accounts of 38,951 users over January to June of 2016, and they received some type of data in 80 percent of cases. Which "legal process" authorities sent to Facebook for information on the protester matters considerably in terms of how much data they can seize for investigation. According to Facebook's legal guidelines, a search warrant, for example, could allow Facebook to give away content data including "messages, photos, videos, timeline posts, and location information." A subpoena or a court order would give authorities less information, but would still include the individual's "name, length of service, credit card information, email address(es), and a recent login/logout IP address(es)."
The news is that Facebook rats you out. So don't use Facebook if you don't want its database wielded against you.
No, the news is that some of the idiot lefties who plan ahead for weeks about how they're going to smash and burn things, gab about it on social media, because they are idiots. Most violent thugs are dim-witted. The stuff-smashing wing of the liberal protest groups are the disposable fools of the progressive camp. Their smarter liberal counterparts don't caution their cannon fodder about how to avoid this sort of lunacy, because they WANT them to be out smashing and burning, and to be able to say, "Oh, that's not us, we just block streets being used by ambulances carrying sick people - we don't actually break anything. Except for Starbucks."
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Sounds sensible to me, but I sense, you meant to imply, it is somehow wrong. I guess, it depends on what the list is then used for. If, as "Antifa" are doing, it will be used to "alert" employers of the employees' political activities, it would be dangerous, but I strongly doubt that both a) that's what you were concerned about; b) that's what DC police will do.
Could you elaborate?
Actually, that'd be an extremely dangerous things to do.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
I suggest getting a Trump/Pence bumper sticker just to be safe.
You may want to hold off on those Trump stickers, liberals become irrationally violent at the sight of Trump's very name.
Var from being safe, you and your property would be in quite real danger.
If you scoff, I dare you to we are a bright red MAGA hat to any rally against Trump. If you are lucky you will just be egged, and not sucker punched/maced.
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