Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Cops tapping Facebook??

http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,25092895-5013044,00.html

The rapidly growing Facebook.com has been the latest thing on a very long list that law enforcement is looking to use as evidence against people in criminal cases. With facebook becoming as popular as a cell phone as a means of communication, it may not be all that unlikely to see people's facebook accounts being tapped by law enforcement in the very near future. I can see law enforcement's point of view here as they are looking to stay as in touch with the technology as the people they are trying to bring down are.
My question is: how stupid can people be? Are there really people out there talking in detail (or at all) about illegal activities over facebook? Apparently there are even though it seems amazing.

I think the biggest point to take out of this is that it would be really hard for law enforcement to use any of this facebook activity in a court room because it is so easy for electronic information to be messed with so it might be something that would get dismissed in court from the defendant's side.

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