Thursday, September 27, 2012

Feds snoop on social network accounts without warrants | Politics and Law - CNET News

Feds snoop on social network accounts without warrants | Politics and Law - CNET News: "Federal police are increasingly gaining real-time access to Americans' social network accounts -- such as Facebook, Google , and Twitter -- without obtaining search warrants, newly released documents show."

"It's not clear how many of those 1,661 real-time intercepts last year -- which do require a judge's approval -- targeted social networks, and how many were aimed at e-mail providers."

"Police must merely claim their request is "relevant" to an ongoing investigation. (A search warrant, by contrast, requires probable cause, and a live wiretap order is even more privacy-protective.)"

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