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In the latest turn in our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for records related to the government's use of social networking websites, the Department of Justice finally agreed to release almost 100 pages of new records. These include draft search warrants and affidavits for Facebook and MySpace and several PowerPoint presentations and articles on how to use social networking sites for investigations. (For more on what we've learned from the documents so far, see our earlier blog posts here, here, here, here, here, and here.) The draft search warrants are particularly interesting because they show the full extent of data the government regularly requests on a person it's investigating. This includes not just your full profile information but also who you "poke" (and presumably who "pokes" you), who rejects your friend requests, which apps you use, what music you listen to, your privacy settings, all photos you upload as well as any photos you're tagged in (whether or not you upload them), who's in each of your Facebook groups, and IP logs that can show if and when you viewed a specific profile and from what IP address you did so. More interesting stuff from the draft MySpace and Facebook search warrants & affidavits:
Documents - Facebook Warrant, Affidavit, and Usage Notes - DOJ Draft MySpace Warrant, Affidavit, and Usage Notes - 2007 Article - How to Search MySpace - ICE/DOJ Presentation on Investigating Online Groups - Article - Investigating Child Exploitation - Minnesota "More than MySpace" Presentation - MySpace Friend Mapper Article - Presentation - Obtaining and Using Social Networking Evidence |