Verizon Gave Phone Data to Armed Stalker Who Posed as Cop Over Email (www.404media.co)
from misk@sopuli.xyz to technology@lemmy.world on 09 Dec 2023 07:23
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JoShmoe@lemmy.zip on 09 Dec 2023 08:26 next collapse

Classic my dog ate my homework excuse.

SevFTW@feddit.de on 09 Dec 2023 09:52 next collapse

An armed dog ate my home work

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world on 09 Dec 2023 13:28 collapse

An armed home ate my dog work.

mangaskahn@lemmy.world on 09 Dec 2023 17:58 collapse

Armed work ate my home dog.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world on 09 Dec 2023 18:01 collapse

Oh no! Not the HOME dog!

shakes fist at work

chitak166@lemmy.world on 09 Dec 2023 12:56 collapse

Really made me want a classic beef hot dog.

insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world on 09 Dec 2023 11:33 next collapse

How are they saying “potentially” endangered someone’s life? This is an “absolutely definitely” endangered her life story.

trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com on 09 Dec 2023 11:36 next collapse

Because they got paid to say ‘potentially’ in order to downplay the seriousness of verizons ineptitude. These news organizations do not report on the news to inform people anymore they alter the presentations of their investigations in order to appease their various shareholders, and wouldn’t you know it, their largest shareholders are corporations or affiliated persons. Just like every other news organization that gets large enough now days.

jasory@programming.dev on 09 Dec 2023 13:16 collapse

No, because unlike you media companies are liable to be sued for false statements.

If corporations really are in control of media companies, then a competitor of Verizon could easily pressure/bribe them to exaggerate or falsify the accusation.

fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com on 09 Dec 2023 13:20 collapse

May = just outside her home being arrested with a knife ->

When authorities later searched the Jeep Glauner had driven, they found methamphetamine and two bundles of rope.

This article is crazy if you read it. If the quality of his requests felt real, especially from a non government email address, these things must cone in shitty all the time.

ArbiterXero@lemmy.world on 09 Dec 2023 15:17 collapse

This is the question the entire article avoids.

The article is written as if to try and get you to avoid asking it too.

“Why was no warrant required for the data?” “Why are police allowed to just ask for your personal info without a warrant”

What’s the point of warrants if they’re no longer needed? Like, warrants are supposed to be a crucial check on police powers, and here we are rendering them pointless.

I weep for the future.

AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Dec 2023 18:09 next collapse

What’s the point of warrants if they’re boo longer needed?

If you give the police permission to conduct a search, they do not need a warrant.

ArbiterXero@lemmy.world on 09 Dec 2023 18:12 collapse

But she didn’t give permission.

Why does Verizon have the authority to give it for her?

solrize@lemmy.world on 09 Dec 2023 19:28 collapse

That set it up so that the material handed over was in Verizon’s possession (business records) and Verizon gave permission. The law is written so that they need a warrant for an actual wiretap (call contents) but not the metadata. Of course metadata is all you need to stalk the person, so that should need a warrant too.

It’s fairly easy to avoid giving your cellular carrier your address (get the bills sent to a PO box} or even your name (buy a prepaid phone with cash). But it’s harder to keep your call records or geolocation info away from them. :(

ArbiterXero@lemmy.world on 09 Dec 2023 23:26 collapse

It was my understanding that warrants were needed to force the acquisition of information, regardless of the type of information. Even call contents are allowed to be freely given to the police as long as you have legitimate access to it.

So Verizon has the ability to say “no” to the metadata too.

They just choose not to.

They choose to sell it rather than force the police to get a warrant. Perhaps they give it for free, I don’t know, but either way, they’re not forced to without a warrant.

uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 10 Dec 2023 01:40 collapse

Because the telecommunications companies are eager to cooperate with the police. Since third-party doctrine applies, the privacy of the company, not the client, is considered, so Verizon happily consents to all police searches of phone records.

This has been discussed all the way up with SCOTUS (dominated by the Federalist Society at the time) so its legal.

ArbiterXero@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 2023 01:54 collapse

Oh I’m not saying it’s illegal, just that it should be.

uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 10 Dec 2023 09:16 collapse

On that we have no disagreement.

chitak166@lemmy.world on 09 Dec 2023 12:55 next collapse

Lol!

Grunt4019@lemm.ee on 09 Dec 2023 19:59 collapse

that the suspect met on the dating section of porn site xHamster

Not related to the issue at hand, but do people really use dating sections of porn sites?

MaxVoltage@lemmy.world on 10 Dec 2023 02:30 collapse

mefhamphetamine is a hell of a drug