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 teenagers 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 dont 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 Sheriffs 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 DEAs 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
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I can't imagine the sophistication of the secret surveillance technology that must go into finding a picture which someone has posted to a public service, and then reading the tagged data in the image file.
Next thing you know, they'll be doing things like spying on people who drop their trousers in the middle of city streets and yell "HEY! LOOKIT MEEE!"
Historic NY
(37,458 posts)if you post it its available for all to see.
Its not that hard to track it back a photo, a forum I use, routinely track its photos for copyright infringement.
winstars
(4,220 posts)Historic NY
(37,458 posts)But there are other programs out there. Professionals photographers don't like having their photos ripped off. In this case you can bet the photo was share on many other sites. The photo would track back to the poster.
Garion_55
(1,915 posts)have all the rapes and thefts and murders there been solved so he had time on his hands?
And why is a grown man on city time trolling the instagram accounts of 17 year old girls?
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Clearly...
Scuba
(53,475 posts)OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)is getting paid lots of money to follow 17 year old girls on Instagram.
If he sees someone posting pics of pot, he'll turn it over to the NSA, which will turn it over to the FBI, DEA, and IRS, which will then turn it over to the local police who will arrest her and confiscate any assets, using "parallel construction" to come up with a legally acceptable story.
If the guy at Booz Allen Hamilton sees pics of a 17 year old girl in her bra and panties, he'll upload them to a porn website instead.
warrant46
(2,205 posts)The American Surveillance State
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Seriously, now...they went through all this trouble to write a girl a summons ticket for a picture of some pot? I know it's early, but so far this ranks as the stupidest thing I've seen today.
jmowreader
(50,580 posts)They used the data to find her house, went out there, and found she owned the pot the picture was of.
Lesson: if you have pot, don't advertise the fact.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I just think it's incredibly stupid to expend so many resources to bust a teenager for pot.
As for not advertising, you're absolutely right, of course, but teenagers do stupid things.
Indi Guy
(3,992 posts)...the existence of this "Hemisphere Project" See post #16.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)It's probably the most disturbing governmental invasion of privacy in my lifetime. At least it's the most disturbing one that I know about.
tridim
(45,358 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)Blandocyte
(1,231 posts)Response to Indi Guy (Original post)
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Garion_55
(1,915 posts)I was curious how much time their officers spent trolling underage girls social network sites but they must not have liked the question cuz they deleted it lol
https://www.facebook.com/pages/St-Mary-Parish-Sheriffs-Office/471252262892645
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Indi Guy
(3,992 posts)[font size="4"]
- 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]
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)...that related to this sort of thing....
Bucky
(54,087 posts)With, of course, the obvious exception of those who are breaking unjust laws in order to bring attention to them. But outside the "Gandhi Rule" please think before you flaunt your vices.
As a side note, let me just point out that the picture in the OP kind of looks like frozen spinach to me.
Indi Guy
(3,992 posts)...any thoughts there?
Bucky
(54,087 posts)Anyway, they sure as hell were trying to break the law on the DL--exactly as I would have advised.
1: to display ostentatiously or impudently : parade <flaunting his superiority>
2: to treat contemptuously <flaunted the rules Louis Untermeyer>
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flaunt
Note definition #2.
Sorry about that, but sometimes presumed grammar tutors need a bit of a comeuppance.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Bucky
(54,087 posts)ronnie624
(5,764 posts)flaunt: to treat contemptuously
See Merriam Webster.
On edit, just saw my spelling mistake.
Oops, sorry.