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. Read the full story here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/police-wiretap-monitor-facebook-account-court-new-jersey Check out our website: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/