Cops can request a copy of your complete Facebook activity

Rosa Golijan

technolog.msnbc.msn.com

April 9, 2012

If police officers were to file a subpoena for your Facebook
information, they would receive a printout of the data from the social
network. This printout would be so detailed, complete and creepy that
you should strive to be a good law-abiding citizen, just to prevent it
from ever existing.

We have just learned about the true nature of Facebook’s responses to
subpoenas thanks to documents uncovered by the Boston Phoenix, an
alternative weekly.

While researching a story about a man dubbed the “Craigslist Killer,”
reporters at the Phoenix had access to “a huge trove of case files
released by the Boston Police Department.” And in the process of sifting
through all of those documents, they discovered the Boston Police’s
subpoena of the suspect’s Facebook information— as well as the data
provided by the social network.

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