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17. Facebook is so public anyway

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Sat Jun 15, 2013, 08:55 AM

Jun 2013

Hard to believe it is that common for Facebook to have anything that will lead to solving a crime.

There are some political sites that might give hints about who belongs to extremist groups.

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Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests [View all] Hissyspit Jun 2013 OP

CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs Electric Monk Jun 2013 #1

So how would we know what they release is really all of them anyway? newthinking Jun 2013 #2

For 500 million users (about 250 million of them on Facebook daily) struggle4progress Jun 2013 #3

Was one of these requests, "Give us it all now and all the time and never tell anyone"? Cronus Protagonist Jun 2013 #4

This. tinrobot Jun 2013 #16

I was thinking of dumping faceplant, now I will. nt Javaman Jun 2013 #5

If true, then this hardly sounds like a grand conspiracy. BenzoDia Jun 2013 #6

This doesn't mean NSA access to Facebook itself is limited in any way PSPS Jun 2013 #7

+1 nt OnyxCollie Jun 2013 #10

One hundred Facebook accounts per day turned over to authorities, approximately. Coyotl Jun 2013 #8

Facebook did the right thing releasing what they could davidpdx Jun 2013 #9

What "conspiracy theories"? temmer Jun 2013 #14

I'm not saying I know conspiracy theories davidpdx Jun 2013 #15

Reuters story alp227 Jun 2013 #11

How in the world did authorities identify 19,000 accounts as being of interest? snot Jun 2013 #12

From that - most requests for Microsoft were probably 'national security' muriel_volestrangler Jun 2013 #13

Facebook is so public anyway treestar Jun 2013 #17