Social Media sites have become a significant source of evidence for federal and state criminal investigators. News reports, for example, have described the manner in which federal investigators have been seeking warrants for the Facebook accounts of targets. One person who faced criminal charges after the search of his account complained, “To be honest with you, it bothers me . . . Facebook could have let me know what was going on. Instead, I got my door kicked down, and all of a sudden I’m in handcuffs.”
Wikileaks founder Juilan Assange summed up the value of Facebook to investigators. He said that on Facebook, authorities can find “the world’s most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations, their communications with each other, their relatives …”
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