Busted! Cops Arrest Teenager After She Posted a Picture of Pot on Instagram...
Source: Computerworld
...A teenage girl in Louisiana was allegedly “part of a group taking photographs of marijuana and posting them on the social media site Instagram.” The details are fairly sketchy at this point, presumably because it involves a 17-year-old minor. St. Mary Parish Sheriff's Office told WAFB that “a detective with the narcotics division saw a picture of people with marijuana on a social media site and began an investigation.” At any rate, detectives showed up at the teenager’s home and “found her to be in possession of the illegal drug. She was released on a summons to appear in court on December 11, 2013.”
KATC added that during the investigation, the detective learned the residence where the pot was located. It does not say how that was determined; perhaps the teenager did not strip the geo-tagged locational metadata from the photo? Back in 2010, the creators of I Can Stalk U tried to raise awareness about hidden metadata added to smartphone photos. If you don’t disable geotagging and post your photo online, a person is “allowing their movements to be recorded and analyzed by anyone: from a government to a nosy neighbor.”
The St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office is one of several that are part of the Gulf Coast High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area; as a side note, the parent agency is the DEA and you might recall the DEA’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program being mentioned during revelations about the Hemisphere Project.
After Andrew Hicks obtained a Hemisphere Project presentation, we learned it “covers every call that passes through an AT&T switch - not just those made by AT&T customers - and includes calls dating back 26 years.” The New York Times reported, “Some four billion call records are added to the database every day," the slides say; technical specialists say a single call may generate more than one record. Unlike the NSA data, the Hemisphere data includes information on the locations of callers.”...
Read more: http://blogs.computerworld.com/privacy/22783/busted-cops-arrest-teenager-after-she-posted-picture-pot-instagram
New York Times exposé of the Hemisphere Project:
A slide presentation given to The New York Times shows that the
Hemisphere Project was started in 2007 and has been carried out in great secrecy. --
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/02/us/hemisphere-project.html#p19
Other sources:
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/9/3/in_secret_at_t_deal_us
http://rt.com/usa/at&t-phone-surveillance-dea-325
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemisphere_Project
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- Hemisphere Project “covers every call that passes through an AT&T switch"
- “Some four billion call records are added to the database every day,"
- "Unlike the NSA data, the Hemisphere data includes information on the locations of callers.”
- No judicial oversight -- not even FISA.
- Since AT&T itself does the legwork, it's not deemed unconstitutional.
[font size="3"]Click here for New York Times publication of Hemisphere Project PowerPoint demo -- http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/02/us/hemisphere-project.html#p19
Democracy Now's piece on the Hemisphere Project (8 min):[/font]
...that related to this sort of thing....
