aGameOfThrones
12-20-2014, 06:45 PM
A federal judge in New Jersey has signed off on the practice of law enforcement using a fake Instagram account in order to become "friends" with a suspect—thus obtaining photos and other information that a person posts to their account.
FURTHER READING
FEDS REVIEWING DEA POLICY OF COUNTERFEITING FACEBOOK PROFILES
Drug agents forged Facebook profile of a suspect in a bid to snag other criminals.
"No search warrant is required for the consensual sharing of this type of information," United States District Judge William Martini wrote in an opinion published last Tuesday.
"[Defendant Daniel] Gatson’s motion to suppress the evidence obtained through the undercover account will be denied."
The criminal case, known as United States v. Daniel Gatson, involves a man accused of perpetrating a long series of burglaries (taking primarily jewelry worth over $3 million in total) in New Jersey and neighboring regions. Gatson, representing himself in the case, had attempted to have the data collected from Instagram thrown out as he claimed there was no probable cause to search or seize such data.
In October 2014, BuzzFeed reported on an incident where a Drug Enforcement Agency officer created a fake Facebook page with photos that had been seized off of her phone during a 2010 arrest.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/judge-its-ok-for-cops-to-create-a-fake-instagram-account-friend-you/
FURTHER READING
FEDS REVIEWING DEA POLICY OF COUNTERFEITING FACEBOOK PROFILES
Drug agents forged Facebook profile of a suspect in a bid to snag other criminals.
"No search warrant is required for the consensual sharing of this type of information," United States District Judge William Martini wrote in an opinion published last Tuesday.
"[Defendant Daniel] Gatson’s motion to suppress the evidence obtained through the undercover account will be denied."
The criminal case, known as United States v. Daniel Gatson, involves a man accused of perpetrating a long series of burglaries (taking primarily jewelry worth over $3 million in total) in New Jersey and neighboring regions. Gatson, representing himself in the case, had attempted to have the data collected from Instagram thrown out as he claimed there was no probable cause to search or seize such data.
In October 2014, BuzzFeed reported on an incident where a Drug Enforcement Agency officer created a fake Facebook page with photos that had been seized off of her phone during a 2010 arrest.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/judge-its-ok-for-cops-to-create-a-fake-instagram-account-friend-you/