Monday, November 26, 2012

Solving crime



Police have begun solving and preventing crimes by using social media websites like Facebook. Many of these crimes are solved simply because the criminal posting incriminating evidence of themselves on these websites, intending to boast their crimes to their friends. Many of these websites have policies to protect their user's privacy, but police can gain access to a criminal's online information through the agreement of a friend (of the suspect's), making a fake account and befriending the suspect (similar to going undercover), and making an emergency request (to the website owners). Facebook has been the most effective for police so far, with YouTube coming in second. Twitter has also been helpful, but is much more reluctant to reveal information to the police without a warrant, to protect their users' identities.

1 comment:

  1. very interesting didnt think of authorities using social media sites to get information on people. very sneaky.

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