DEA Sets Up Fake Facebook Page in Woman's Name

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DEA Sets Up Fake Facebook Page in Woman's Name

This is a creepy story. A woman has her phone seized by the Drug Enforcement Agency and gives them permission to look at her phone. Without her knowledge or consent, they steal photos off of the phone (the article says they were "racy") and use it to set up a fake Facebook page in her name.

The woman sued the government over this. Extra creepy was the government's defense in court: "Defendants admit that Plaintiff did not give express permission for the use of photographs contained on her phone on an undercover Facebook page, but state the Plaintiff implicitly consented by granting access to the information stored in her cell phone and by consenting to the use of that information to aid in an ongoing criminal investigations [sic]."

The article was edited to say: "Update: Facebook has removed the page and the Justice Department said it is reviewing the incident." So maybe this is just an overzealous agent and not official DEA policy.

But as Marcy Wheeler said, this is a good reason to encrypt your cell phone.

https://www.schneier.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=&IncludeBlogs=2&archive_type=Index&template_id=320&limit=10&page=3

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Too bad a lot of the law holds some of the lowest scum criminal garbage of all.

Honestly there are so many people who deserved to be struck by lightning and burned off the face of the Earth,

Some judge will hurry up and give them the "right" to do this, just like how they can force our finger onto our phones because "that's not a password and we have God like power over your DNA".