Police need wiretap order to monitor Facebook account, court rules

Police need wiretap order to monitor Facebook account, court rules

Police and prosecutors must receive wiretap approval if they wish to eavesdrop on a user’s Facebook account without evidence of them committing a crime, a New Jersey court ruled Thursday.

In a landmark case, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Facebook, deciding that a warrant was insufficient to track a user’s social media account and that a wiretap order would be required. New Jersey law enforcement had attempted to get Facebook to provide the content of two users’ accounts every 15 minutes for 30 days with just a warrant, which only requires probable cause to approve. The warrant was justified, the state argued, because the data would already technically be stored on Facebook’s servers and not a live feed of the user’s activities.

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July 02, 2023 06:47 PM

July 02, 2023 06:47 PM

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