DEA poses as woman on FB, posting photos from her seized phone

[Broncojohnny]

If Arquiett agreed to cooperate with an ongoing investigation and allow her phone to be used as part of that probe - as the government alleged in its court filing - then it would be harder for her to prove that her privacy rights were violated, Friedman said. If her phone were seized without consent, then she would have an easier claim.

"Basically, when you strike that kind of deal, you kind of have to play by the government's rules," Friedman said. "This is not the ordinary situation in which the person walking down the street can have their identity stolen by the government," he said. "She was involved in a criminal investigation."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dea-agen...ok-decoy-page/

I love this retard logic where if the government has access to your phone, they have the right to impersonate you.

Didn't the government just argue a few months ago they that they don't need a warrant to access your phone?

[Forever_frost]

I love this retard logic where if the government has access to your phone, they have the right to impersonate you.

Didn't the government just argue a few months ago they that they don't need a warrant to access your phone?

For a while, cops had the ability to scan your entire phone just by walking up to your vehicle without a warrant.

[John -- '02 HAWK]

For a while, cops had the ability to scan your entire phone just by walking up to your vehicle without a warrant.

When did that change?

[Broncojohnny]

When did that change?

When the Supreme Court shut their asses down.

[matts5.0]

When the Supreme Court shut their asses down.

Like that stopped.

[John -- '02 HAWK]

When the Supreme Court shut their asses down.

I didnt remember them ruling on it is why I asked

[Tremor14]

how many here are doing so much illegal activity that it warrants concern?! i'm new to the group (technically) but i'd assume if you get pulled over the police warrant the ability to pull up any and all info on you. if you sit in jail long enough (i.e. 36-48 hours, then it is fair game. stay pure!

[talisman]

how many here are doing so much illegal activity that it warrants concern?! i'm new to the group (technically) but i'd assume if you get pulled over the police warrant the ability to pull up any and all info on you. if you sit in jail long enough (i.e. 36-48 hours, then it is fair game. stay pure!

Being able to pull up any criminal history is a far cry from them scrolling through all my naked duck face selfies.

[Forever_frost]

how many here are doing so much illegal activity that it warrants concern?! i'm new to the group (technically) but i'd assume if you get pulled over the police warrant the ability to pull up any and all info on you. if you sit in jail long enough (i.e. 36-48 hours, then it is fair game. stay pure!

How many of us have constitutional rights that state this cannot be done without due process of law?

[inline 6]

Fuck that noise, Im going back to this....

[talisman]

It will be interesting to see how this turns out. I would think the answer should be obvious, but I can see it going either direction.


An agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is being sued for using images and information taken from an arrested New York woman’s cellphone and using them to attempt to trick others into providing secrets about an illicit drug operation.

By Derrick Broze @ Benn Swann
Buzzfeed originally reported on the situation, detailing how Sondra Arquiett was originally arrested in July 2010 for possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Upon her arrest, Arquiett did agree to help federal prosecutors, however, in court filings she states that she never explicitly allowed the DEA to gather pictures from her cellphone and create a fake account.

The Department of Justice disagrees, stating that Arquiett did not directly authorize DEA Agent Timothy Sinnigen to create a fake facebook account but she “implicitly consented by granting access to the information stored in her cellphone and by consenting to the use of that information to aid in … ongoing criminal investigations.”

Sinnigen was attempting to use Arquiett’s contacts to locate other drug dealers, namely her boyfriend who was accused of being part of a large drug distribution network. He confiscated private information and photographs from her cellphone to create a facebook profile under the name Sondra Prince. The account was active for three months without Arquiett’s knowledge. In that time Sinnigen was acting as if he was Arquiett and attempting to communicate with potential business partners. The profile has since been taken down.

After the story broke the Department of Justice announced that they would review the incident and the practice. The trial for the case begins next week in Albany, New York. Arguiett is attempting to argue that she has suffered “fear and great emotional distress” and possibly put in danger because the page indicated that she was cooperating with the DEA’s investigation.

Nate Cardozo of the Electronic Frontier Foundation told CBS, “If I’m cooperating with law enforcement, and law enforcement says, ‘Can I search your phone?’ and I hand it over to them, my expectation is that they will search the phone for evidence of a crime – not that they will take things that are not evidence off my phone and use it in another context.”

In the age of paid government trolls it is important to practice a culture of security and be weary of who you communicate with and who you give access to your information. Arquiett’s case might serve as a helpful reminder to those who believe they can trust the authorities. My advice: Never cooperate with the police or the federal government.

This article originally appeared at Benn Swann

Read more at http://www.punkrocklibertarians.com/...i88Wt2fZMTD.99

[Baba Ganoush]

So, if I (a private citizen) create a fake social media account with your public information and pictures I had permission to use, would that be a crime?

[John -- '02 HAWK]

So, if I (a private citizen) create a fake social media account with your public information and pictures I had permission to use, would that be a crime?

No, just look at the mtv catfish show. Those pics are often stolen and there isnt much recourse. especially if the photos are posted to social media site

[Fourx4Brad]

Update: DoJ to pay convicted drug dealer $134K after using inappropriate photos

http://www.electronicproducts.com/Programming/Social/US_DoJ_to_pay_convicted_drug_dealer_134K_after_using_inappropriate_photos_taken_from_her_phone_to_create_fake_Facebook_page.aspx

A slip-up by the Drug Enforcement Agency has netted convicted drug dealer Sondra Arquiett a $134,000 settlement with the U.S. Justice Department.
The fee was agreed upon after Arquiett sued the U.S. government for making a fake Facebook page that contained numerous inappropriate photographs of her, including one of Arquiett in a state of half-dress, as well as images of children in her family.

The actual story begins back in July 2010 when Arquiett, then a restaurant waitress, was arrested and accused of being involved in a drug ring. She pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, and was sentenced to six months of weekend jail time.

During her arrest, Arquiett surrendered her smartphone and consented to officers accessing its data to help them with related criminal investigations, including an inquiry into her boyfriend, who was suspected of coordinating drug sales (he later pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine).

What happened so far is fairly standard criminal investigative work, but it’s after this point where things take a bit of an odd turn and Arquiett’s case begins. You see, unbeknownst to her, the officers took the photographs and information on her phone and used it to create a fake Facebook page in hopes of luring in her criminal colleagues. She was never made aware of this operation, nor the fact that a “publicly available” Facebook page was created using her alias “Sondra Prince”.

[krazy kris]

I really don't see anything wrong with it. The chick was into drugs and they are just trying to catch as many others as possible with any info they have.