Social Media Social media is moving rapidly towards pervasive connectivity that will have an impact on how digital search warrants should be granted. The majority of Americans on a daily basis utilize social media and the vast amount of the exchanged information is beyond measurable. Due to overwhelming social media usage, there is heightened concern among the public over what can be accessed by law enforcement officials and what should be the scope of their search warrants. Despite such concerns, courts haven 't issued a definitive ruling distinguishing social media posts from other electronic communications. The case law is already filled with instances in which the government obtained social media evidence through a warrant or subpoena directed at a social media company. Social media evidence is the new frontier of criminal proceedings and it raises unique legal challenges, including issues of admissibility and a defendant’s constitutional rights in material that social media companies maintain. Federal law provides that in some circumstances, the government may compel social media companies to produce social media evidence without a warrant. The Stored Communication Act (“SCA”) governs the ability of governmental entities to compel service providers, such as Twitter and Facebook, to produce content (e.g., posts and tweets) and non content customer records (e.g., name and address) in certain circumstances. Even though the SCA has not been amended to reflect
Ever since World Wide Web came out in 1990, it has opened a floodgate for sharing and communicating over the internet in the form of social media. People can keep in touch with their friends and families from across the world, know what they are up to, and see all the interesting things that goes on in their lives. Keeping up with everyone and everything no longer requires tedious phone calls and email messages. Instead, we have easier, better looking, more interactive, and all around more fun ways to communicate. These new, and seemingly better in everyway, methods of communication is of course a hit with tech savvy young people and more surprisingly, also their old folks. Every new thing that came out, from Facebook to Twitter to Instagram to Snapchat, is hailed as groundbreaking and completely essential to daily lives by its users. Yet they all come with less recognisable, but just as important dangers. And I am not talking about drunk tweeting, either. These are bigger and much more complicated threats. Yes, social media is a new and wonderful way to communicate and share. However, this new way to communicate has created a new face for crime and a new class of criminals, and this new way to share has destroyed our privacy and personal security. For all their savviness at using these social media outlets, many fail to realize that there are people with less than innocent intentions following their every move through their shared feeds. Social media is a threat to our
This can cause serious problems within the criminal justice system. Social media plays a massive role in the way that news is allocated within society. However, because of this large role it plays, it also interferes with the investigation and results of a particular criminal action. One can imagine how swiftly he or she learned about the horrific shooting incident that happened in Sandy Hook Elementary School or the unfortunate killing of Trayvon Martin and how George Zimmerman was prosecuted based on the public’s online response.
According to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, the people of the nation are entitled to the freedom of speech, but not all speech is the same. The internet provides us with an infinite amount of information, grants us access to virtually everything we could want and acts as an unrestrained vehicle of communication. In the day and age where technology is advancing and social media and internet are of rising importance, the Supreme Court of the United States has been faced with the challenge of deciding what constitutes a true threat made on social media websites.
Social media is a common threat to privacy. These days nothing about our lives can be kept a secret with the amount of information individuals post online. If someone wanted to find out something about someone, all they would have to do would be to visit their Facebook or twitter page. Many large companies that fear for security risks monitor and track their employees’ Internet and email usage. However, there is an even more dangerous threat to private security, hackers. Whether they are in the government, working for private industry, or free-lance, hackers can be found anywhere virtually breaking into servers that are not usually accessible. Recently the government has begun to increase the invasiveness of their monitoring of individuals’ private lives. Since the attacks on 9/11, the “government, through the National Security Surveillance Act (NSSA) C.N., have been wiretapping cell phone conversations, often on random innocent citizens who the government should have no reason to believe these citizens would be involved with any illegal activity” (Dowell). The government does not just invade the privacy of dangerous or suspicious characters; they invade the privacy of every citizen. The government also tracks all Internet usage and accounts. Every message you have ever sent or posted online can be viewed by the FBI and various other security agencies. These acts violate the second amendment, freedom of privacy. With their knowledge of computer programming, free-lance hackers can hack into even the most secure networks and download private information. Nothing is safe from hackers, “pictures, phone numbers, social security numbers, emails, work information, anything needed for fraud can be found on the web or through a company” (Dowell). They use this information to access credit cards and other private accounts and rob people, all from behind a computer screen.
Social Media has become universal in the day to day lives of Americans. Every ad, television show, and even food products incorporate social media for revenue. With recent revelations concerning social media involvement with spying it should be common knowledge to be wary what you post, yet for many people social media is now a memoir. By simply clicking a button you can post your life online for anyone to see. Although it's believed to be for the greater good, the use of social media to spy on citizens an invasion of privacy and a direct violation of the fourth Amendment.
"Who would have imagined in 1990 that social media and the internet would have such a profound impact on all areas of life: human relationships, domestic and global trade, education, entertainment? Now it is nearly impossible to live outside of the technological empire of Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Google, or other tech companies. The pervasive nature of technology has influenced the political world as well, involving recent events such as Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, Net Neutrality, or President Trump’s spontaneous and often ridiculous Tweets. The Technological Age has caused a new debate: the government’s role in monitoring internet activity. Constitutional ideals suggest that the federal, state, and local government should monitor the internet activity of its officials, but it should not monitor the activity of its citizens.
These new tools are “dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration,” (Social Media, 2015). Everyone is on social media these days, including your employees, your competition, clients, and future clients. Being able to communicate with everyone is vital to the growth of the NSC. The problem with social media is that NSC can be held liable for legal issues arising from our employees’ social media use and accounts. Examples of issues include incidents such as discriminatory social media messages, different forms of harassing on Facebook, or even radical up scene tweets. Companies can also witness the issue of employees leaking of crucial company or customer information. These risks exist regardless of whether the employee commits the offense at the office using company-owned computer resources or at home using their personal social media accounts, since they are often identified as an employee of the company in their social media profile. Setting guidelines, training, and purpose behind social media can help the company grow expediential, while minimizing the negative ramifications affiliated with social
Today social media is a popular thing among modern America. We have things like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. As fun and popular as these things may be, they are another way that the government watches us and invades even more of our privacy. It was reported by the Huffington Post that the government was trying to ‘Exploit our Facebook to detect fraud, fake marriage.’ Not only that but it was also reported by the outsidethebeltway.com that what you post on social media like Facebook can be used against you as evidence in court. Where is our freedom going? They might as well take all things posted on social media and vaporize people, like they did in 1984. What people share on social media must consider that they might as well be, “…sharing directly with the judge and jury…” (Mataconis) No matter what we do it seems the government can find it out or they somehow already know. The government is basically like Big Brother Who is Always Watching You. This theme of our “Big Brother” watching and controlling us like in 1984 is a reoccurring theme in today’s world, it’s not getting anywhere to stopping but it seems to increasing.
The main argument of this text is social media being an investigative object. The authors of this text clearly illustrate how social media has acted as an investigative object.
As of 2016 there are over 250 million Americans who have at least one social media profile and every year more and more criminals are turning to the internet to expand their illicit dealings or to divulge their controversial opinions online. So it should come to no surprise that there has also been a trend in regards to the growing number major domestic law enforcement organizations utilizing online social media and social networking services to build their intelligence. The increased surveillance of social media profiles, of course has spawned multiple debates raising the argument between civil rights and privacy
Today, public safety is more refined, and strategies of communication are a lot quicker. Law enforcement tools have evolved from posters to police radio, patrol cars and social networks, like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Social networking has quickly become a valuable intelligence-gathering tool for law enforcement agencies, also as a supply of proof for defense and prosecution personnel who search Facebook pages, Twitter feeds or YouTube videos seeking to discredit witnesses, establish enforcement bias, hunt proof or establish associations between gang members (Perry, 2014). Some enforcement employees, notably those accustomed to the use of social media frequently communicate with friends or family, typically post material with very little or no thought as to whom could have access to it or how it should be shared. Inappropriate or careless postings on social media sites will impact an agency negatively in many ways. An employee’s statements concerning coworkers as well as the departmental leadership will produce dissension within the work, inappropriate communication, or harm a law enforcement agency’s relationship with the diverse community it serves (Perry, 2014).
In October 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States made a decision that stands as a victory for privacy advocates today. In Riley v. California, the Court prohibited warrantless digital searches, concluding that digital searches are “much more intrusive” than searches of physical items, therefore deserving more protection (Balitis, 2014; Riley v. California, 2013). With increased focus on mobile devices and digital searches, the question of just what falls into these categories arises. With an ever-changing mobile industry, it is necessary that clear and concise rules and regulations remain up to date with new technologies.
Because social media websites like Facebook, twitter, and Instagram have only recently gained widespread popularity; the law is still unsettled, particularly in the areas of evidence and discovery. However, it is evolving rapidly, as issues regarding access to social media increasingly arise during
Technology presents a double edged sword; it has created a fight between individual privacy and social connectivity. As children, we are taught to guard our identity online, as to remain safe from predators. In spite of this, as many people become adults, they feel nonchalant about sharing their entire lives on social media sites. As people invest more of their real self into their online identity, they make it easier for the government to connect everything they do online. The NSA collects data through a kind of internet “dragnet” that covers as much area as possible in order to collect as much data as possible. The more data someone puts online, the more data the NSA collects about them. While many people are comfortable with their online profiles, this “dragnet” also collects information about their search history, their websites visited, and their private messages sent. With all of this data, the NSA can create a near complete profile of any citizen that uses the web. A problem with government monitoring is that the data they collect can be skewed. Government monitoring removes context of the data that is collected meaning something that may have been innocently said can be perceived as guilty when viewed from a different perspective. Unfortunately, it is not only our government that wants its citizens’ data. Hackers can cause leaks of information from NSA collection centers, exposing personal data to identity thieves and
Governments around the world watch citizens under the pretext of national security. Since social media is widespread in many people and lots of people open their private pages so anyone could read, governments monitor social media using Big Data technology. Though many countries covertly do social media oversight, effectiveness on security is still unknown. Current state of Big Data technology can merely figure out what the sentence