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Facebook often cooperates with law enforcement

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March 17, 2010 | Agustin Armendariz, California Watch

Facebook's chief privacy officer, Chris Kelly, is in the running to be California's next attorney general, and a Justice Department presentation obtained by the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation indicates that Facebook is, "often cooperative with emergency requests" from law enforcement agencies.

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The troves of data users post on Facebook, as well as the information Facebook collects about those users, such as the IP address they log in from, potentially provide evidence, according to the presentation.

It can, "reveal personal communications, establish motives and personal relationships, provide location information, prove and disprove alibis and establish crime or criminal enterprise."

The Electronic Frontier Foundation obtained the documents "through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case that EFF filed with the help of the UC Berkeley Samuelson Clinic," according to the organization's post.

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March 17, 2010
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This is a scary revelation - not that I'm surprised. It's obviously not enough that our information is so readily given to advertisers, now they're giving "Big Brother" the freedom to browse our Facebooks at their leisure. Brilliant.
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Facebook is going to become more and more cooperative and I think the government agencies probably already have a team dedicated to Facebook information to track down individuals who prove elusive.

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