The ACLU-DC is trying to stop three search warrants that’d let the Department of Justice snoop around protesters’ Facebook accounts over Inauguration Day protests. They filed in D.C. Superior Court on Thursday, saying the government’s demands violate the Fourth Amendment because they are so broad, and threatening First Amendment speech. These warrants ask for too much information not directly relevant to the federal probe, argues the ACLU. This includes information on the plaintiffs’ friends, associates, and the approximately 6000 individuals who just “liked” an anti-Donald Trump Facebook page.
Requested data would go back to Nov. 1, 2016, a week before the presidential election. “The warrants make no provision for avoiding or minimizing invasions into personal and associational/expression information, for preventing such information from being shared widely within the government, or for destroying irrelevant material when the investigation is concluded,” said the ACLU filing. In other words, this might chill First Amendment speech by giving the government means to observe anyone who were simply linked to anti-Trump protesters.
This fight stems from arrests made Jan. 20. Demonstrators came to Washington D.C. to protest President Donald Trump‘s inauguration, and over 200 ended up getting charged with felony rioting. In investigating the alleged criminality, the federal government later got three search warrants from the D.C. Superior Court against three Facebook accounts: the disruptj20 page (now known as Resist This) owned by Emmelia Talarico, and personal accounts owned by Lacy MacAuley, and Legba Carrefour. According to the ACLU, these people didn’t initially know about warrants because of a gag order. Facebook fought this gag order, which was later dropped by the government shortly before the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled on it. Talarico, MacAuley, and Carrefour hadn’t even been charged with Inauguration Day-related arrested by the US Attorney, said the ACLU.
The DOJ declined to comment.
Well on the plus side the Trump Administration seems to finally be recognizing "domestic terrorism," but on the negative side they seem to think that domestic terrorism includes people who "like" a page that says mean things about Orange Hitler.
At this point I am afraid that the outcome of all this attention being paid to Russia's use of social media to impact our election will be that the Trump Department of Justice can then use it to make Facebook and Twitter hand over user information that can then be used to go after critics of the administration.
As much as I want something to be done to protect our democracy from hostile foreign governments using social media to alter the outcome of elections, I have absolutely no confidence that Trump and his lackeys will not use any governmental control provided to them for their own nefarious plans.
After all the greatest threat to the future of this country does not reside in the Kremlin, it resides in the White House.
So, the left is all for the DOJ stomping on the First Amendment rights of anyone on the right that they don't agree with but oops, when they come after you it's just a step too far?
ReplyDeleteThe 1st applies to both sides and our government fully has the right to explore the very public social media spewings of anyone, and everyone.
Hey, anyone ever think that perhaps that old social media presence wasn't the best idea?
Nope, all you overs-sharing narcissists are going to get the same treatment, right, left or center :-)
Someone gets it! Cheers mate!
DeleteFolks living in other countries do not have 1st Amendment fights as they are not American citizens.
DeleteNobody is advocating for Facebook to simply hand over data for every user who is remotely connected to a controversial group.
But if they are accounts owned by foreign troll farms or are simply bots, then yeah that information should be made available to DOJ.
trump has already tried to get voter information the states have refused to hand it over. trump won't stop trying to take away people's right to vote-people he does not like. women, black ect-he know people who don't like that won't vote for him. well that's almost everyone these days.
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“The National Security Agency warned senior White House officials in classified briefings that improper use of personal cellphones and email could make them vulnerable to espionage by Russia, China, Iran and other adversaries,” Politico reported."
Shittler is following hitlers playbook people. He is just not as competent.
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Delete"The company, Cambridge Analytica, inked a deal with the nation’s leading conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, for the purpose of hitting up Trump voters for donations."
"run by Rebekah Mercer, who with her father provided major cash infusions for Trump and groups supporting him during the 2016 campaign. Mercer is also a board member of the Heritage Foundation, the nation’s flagship conservative think tank."on November 28, 2016, it hammered out a new agreement to use the massive amounts of data that the firm had collected on Trump supporters in the run-up to the election, with an explicit eye towards raising money from the president’s base.
“Cambridge Analytica will provide data and data analytics to inform a data-driven fundraising project for [Heritage] among the Trump supporter audience to enable Client to expand its donor base in light of the November 2016 election results,” reads the business agreement filed by Cambridge Analytica with the government of North Carolina this year. “Cambridge Analytica will leverage proprietary predictive models for a) Trump supporters and b) political issues prioritization c) evangelical and conservative audiences to establish a target audience for Client's fundraising efforts.”Cambridge Analytica’s massive database of information on Trump voters is the guidebook for doing just that. And it didn’t hurt that the Mercers are major Heritage Foundation donors. Their family foundation has given Heritage at least $1.5 million since 2013.
According to Heritage’s annual tax filing for 2016, the group paid Cambridge Analytica $120,000 last year for its services, which it itemized as a “contract for data analytics.” Though that transaction did not meet the dollar threshold generally required for disclosure of contractor payments, Heritage was REQUIRED to NOTE it on that filing due to Mercer’s seat on the group’s board."
"Cambridge Analytica estimated that it could provide Heritage with the names of 600,000 new potential donors. Cambridge Analytica collects data far beyond the political leanings of the individuals in its database. It also gathers large amounts of more mundane information, such as consumer preferences and health concerns. The firm boasts more than 5,000 data points about each of the voters in its database."eritage will gain access to only a few of them. According to its Cambridge Analytica contract, the firm will provide the names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers of its fundraising prospects. It will also give a rundown of their priority policy issues, and
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