can police view your facebook
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A friend of a friend works in CID. My mate started bringing him out to the pub and he joined the rest of us on more and more occasions for weekly drinks. Now this bloke is a bit of a tosser to say the least and on a few occasions has proven himself to be a sneaky sh$t. He sometimes comes out to the pub with us on a thursday and on a few occasions has dropped hints about knowing stuff on our facebook/about us. I have nothing to hide and use my facebook to message friends etc but what he said was pretty specfic and got me thinking -Can police just view your facebook or do they need a court order, and even if they need a court order or not can they just do it, or is it only Facebook themselves that can view this information.
Anyone can view Facebook without a warrant. To get beyond the public view, you have to be a specially trained digital forensics officer and it can be used in court. Warrant not needed but it does become disclosable material.
You would be surprised to know how easy it is to get into the private area without "cracking your password". I've seen the pages accessed in seconds which were previously locked up to non-friends.
Warrants are only generally issued to arrest or enter, search and seize on a premises.
You would be surprised to know how easy it is to get into the private area without "cracking your password". I've seen the pages accessed in seconds which were previously locked up to non-friends.
Warrants are only generally issued to arrest or enter, search and seize on a premises.
Edited by Sgt Bilko on Thursday 12th March 00:10
Sgt Bilko said:
Anyone can view Facebook without a warrant. To get beyond the public view, you have to be a specially trained digital forensics officer and it can be used in court. Warrant not needed but it does become disclosable material.
You would be surprised to know how easy it is to get into the private area without "cracking your password". I've seen the pages accessed in seconds which were previously locked up to non-friends.
Warrants are only generally issued to arrest or enter, search and seize on a premises.
No warrant required. It falls under RIPA authorisation for covert/intrusive surveillance - and this is required if even the public material is to be viewed on more than a few occasions (viewing public material once or twice does not require authorisation).You would be surprised to know how easy it is to get into the private area without "cracking your password". I've seen the pages accessed in seconds which were previously locked up to non-friends.
Warrants are only generally issued to arrest or enter, search and seize on a premises.
Edited by Sgt Bilko on Thursday 12th March 00:10
As for the rules around "friending", use of others as friends and means for obtaining complete copies of all Faceache data...well, there's a whole chapter on that in a very dull book.
P.S. - where he works is largely irrelevant if he's merely doing it as a tosser.
Edited by marshalla on Thursday 12th March 09:21
It is surprisingly easy to do stuff on Facebook. Ex has blocked me from seeing anything on hers (and vice versa) but I can easy see her stuff just by using another account. Not illegal and I don't need to be BiB for it.
BTW I am not stalking her or anything creepy - I was just curious when I noticed she'd blocked me.
I wouldn't post anything on there you don't want to be public.
BTW I am not stalking her or anything creepy - I was just curious when I noticed she'd blocked me.
I wouldn't post anything on there you don't want to be public.
all my settings are private and you cant see anything unless you are friends with me. On one occasion we were out and he thought my friend insulted him (he didnt, the copper completly misheard). When i got home my phone beeped and i had a fb update - looked on my wall and the copper who I was friends with him on FB at that time had written this cack on my wall on the lines of im going to hurt your mate and cut him up as he insulted me - kinda thing a 13 year might write. I deleted it off and told him to stop behaving like a moron as my family can see that. The next day he messaged me to say sorry and he misheard and got it wrong. Few other occasions but he generally thinks he is in the mafia or something. Cant tell you how much i dislike him!
IF he genuinely is a cop then he needs reporting for comments like that. Exactly the sort of moron that gives the job a bad name while the majority try to patch up the damage that the few have caused. IF he is a cop, you'll probably find that most of his colleagues think he is a t
t as well.
t as well. I've heard a long-term serving officer blab out some really sensitive info about other people which are (were?) not public knowledge. The guy is a bit of a gossip and tends to try to impress his friends. I have nothing against the guy but he's introducing gossip "into the grapevine", a lot of which is true but is nobody's business, and some of which is merely speculation but is then taken as true as a police officer said it. This has caused a lot of harm to people who did not deserve it.
Any comments?
Any comments?
quiraing said:
I've heard a long-term serving officer blab out some really sensitive info about other people which are (were?) not public knowledge. The guy is a bit of a gossip and tends to try to impress his friends. I have nothing against the guy but he's introducing gossip "into the grapevine", a lot of which is true but is nobody's business, and some of which is merely speculation but is then taken as true as a police officer said it. This has caused a lot of harm to people who did not deserve it.
Any comments?
Anything he knows as a result of his job should stay at work
Any comments?
Anything he knows as a result of his job should stay at work
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