The Department of justice may review the personal information of thousands of users of Facebook, which has put a mark «like» the page, against the administration’s policies trump, or somehow interacted with it.
As CNN reports, the lawyers are going to check the information about the «activists who oppose the administration and spoke on the organised activities, and which, as a rule, very criticized the policy of the current administration.»
The Department sent three orders in the social network Facebook, they revealed the names and profiles of users who have endorsed or interacted with the content on the page DisruptJ20 (now Resist This), owned by Emmelia Talarico. Thus, the data of about 6000 users can be made available to the government.
Besides the account Talarico and disruptj20, a warrant will likely be issued on the explore pages Lacey McAuley and Legba Carrefour. Carrefor not agree to a search, saying that his account at Facebook, «contains a significant part of the private information related to personal life.» Carrefour denied that he participated in any of the riots in Washington on inauguration Day. But the activist admitted that he «participated in or helped to organize dozens of demonstrations and events of various types for political reasons.»
(2/2) interview w/ #DisruptJ20 organizers working to physically stop #DonaldTrump’s presidency w/ counter-inaugural protest @legbacarrefour pic.twitter.com/HgMfaSZn1N
— Alex Rubinstein (@RealAlexRubi) January 9, 2017
Facebook for 7 months participated in the trial to the social network allowed all three to inform users about what the government intends to obtain information about them.
The representative of Facebook said: «We are grateful to the companies and civil society organizations who have supported us in the debate about the ability of people to learn and challenge too broad search warrants».
On Thursday, the American civil liberties Union (ACLU), representing three users of Facebook, filed a petition for cancellation or reduction of possibilities of the Ministry. The ACLU called the requirement of the Department of «unwarranted invasion of personal privacy».
They stressed that such a decision «will chill future online communications of political activists and all who communicate with them, as they realize that there is no privacy setting in the Internet can not protect them from government tracking of political and personal material.»
