According to one report by the Electronic Border Foundation (EFF), Facebook sent a letter to the Memphis Police Department (MPD), asking them to stop creating and using fake accounts, fishing for information for their investigations.
Όπως αναφέρθηκε λεπτομερώς στην επιστολή της Andrea Kirkpatrick, της διευθύντριας του Facebook και γενικού συμβούλου για θέματα ασφαλείας, το MPD κλήθηκε να σταματήσει να δημιουργεί ψεύτικους λογαριασμούς στο Facebook, καθώς πρόκειται για ρητή infringement of the terms of service and policies of the social network.
"Facebook has made it clear that law enforcement is also subject to these policies," Kirkpatrick said. "We consider this activity as a violation of Facebook terms and policies and therefore we have disabled the fake accounts we found in our investigation."
Fox13 got a response from MPD saying the faker account to name Bob Smith was deleted before the Facebook letter was sent to police.
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation - Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)"The fact that Facebook's legal department applies the rule even to law enforcement agencies that knowingly violate social networking standards is a good sign as it balances out competition over disputed policies."authentic names".
EFF has provided evidence that law enforcement agencies know that creating false accounts on Facebok breaks social policy terms and policies, but they choose to do so, as the collected data can be used in court. A common example is illegal network monitoring and gathering of information from activists.
