Say What Jennifer???
“If police are creating a fake profile and asking to be a friend, they are not going through the court” to obtain a search warrant, she said. “So you’re losing the checks and balances that we value in our criminal justice system.”
Oh it's another Jennifer Lynch.
Love it - thanks BCF.
Hell, if the real one wants to create files, then so can we all.
Interesting days ahead.
Probably the funniest and most telling. No wonder the American concept of Free Speech is not wanted here and under attack there.
"Facebook is based on a real name culture, so fake names and false identities are actually a violation of the terms of use," Axten wrote in an e-mail. "We disable the accounts of people operating under pseudonyms."
Jennifer Lynch, a lecturer at the law school of the University of California in Berkeley, said there are ethical issues involved when police pretend to be someone's friend to get access to their profile.
"If police is creating a fake profile and asking to be a friend, they are not going through the court" to obtain a search warrant, she said. "So you're losing the checks and balances that we value in our criminal justice system."
Kyle Bannon, 19, a Bedford, N.H.-based member of the Facebook group "Bedford cops need a life," agrees police working undercover on Facebook is akin to "searching without a warrant."
"It doesn't seem like the forefathers of our country would be too keen on that idea," he said".
I have no real problem with the Police doing it for serious crime stuff but as we saw here with the CHRC - gummint gumshoes without law enforcement training had lots of day and night fun doing this "Spy vs. Spy" stuff.
Easier than a real day job I guess.
Jenny don't much it seems.
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