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An emergency data request is a procedure used by U.S. law enforcement agencies for obtaining information from service providers in emergency situations where there is not time to get a subpoena. In 2022, Brian Krebs reported that emergency data requests were being spoofed by hackers to obtain confidential information.
The parent company of Snapchat, which has more than 800 million users worldwide, said it was “actively looking into these reports” and would “continue to work closely with law enforcement to ...
A 19-year-old Michigan man is facing criminal charges after police say he feigned being 14 years old and used Snapchat to access a minor, stay at her home and sexually assault the child and her ...
A 2021 transparency report showed that 25% of data requests from law enforcement to Google were geo-fence data requests. [5] Google is the most common recipient of geo-fence warrants and the main provider of such data, [4] [6] although companies including Apple, Snapchat, Lyft, and Uber have also received such warrants. [4] [5]
Relatives of more than 60 young people who died of fentanyl overdoses have filed an expanded lawsuit against Snapchat, saying the messaging platform facilitates trade in illegal drugs.
Drug dealers commonly post inoffensive public updates that incorporate location information so that consumers-and unknowingly, law enforcement-know the location to find them, claimed police. A more debatable tactic to getting evidence from social networks is going undercover online-creating false accounts to make friends with suspects.
In the first half of 2020, the latest data set available, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple received more than 114,000 data requests from U.S. law enforcement agencies and supplied data in 85% ...
The order also requires all federal law enforcement agencies to contribute to the database, and requires the Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to release an annual report containing aggregated and anonymized data from the database to maintain transparency and accountability.