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Police Procedures Leaked for Getting Into Facebook, Other Accounts

Posted November 24, 2011 1:15 PM

From CNET News:

Leaked confidential documents telling police under what circumstances they can gain access to Facebook, Microsoft, Blizzard, and AOL accounts appeared online this week.

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11/25/2011 3:55 PM

It's really scary the amount of tracking that takes place now! Google should have to big eyeballs for the double o's if you ask me.

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Re: Police Procedures Leaked for Getting Into Facebook, Other Accounts

11/28/2011 12:09 PM

Government imposed net neutrality, anyone?

They only want to help........................keep telling yourself that. From the link:

A House of Representatives panel voted in July to require Internet providers to store customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses. Previous Justice Department proposals envisioned forcing social networking sites to keep records for a few years of who uploads which photographs or videos.

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