Many people are truly careless with the information that they put on social media. Obviously burglars might find an opportunity if you way you are going away for a while. If you mention heavy drinking and implied drug use, this could affect a job application and even credit applications. When in doubt, leave it out.

Social Media Companies May No Longer Refuse to Turn Over Relevant Information to Those Facing Criminal Charges. In August 2020, the California Supreme Court sent a case for attempted murder back to the trial court to provide the accused a new trial. The high court did so because they did not believe that social media companies like Facebook and Twitter should always be able to refuse to comply with subpoenas in criminal cases.

Facebook, as it has in a high number of other cases, maintained that the Stored Communications Act bars it from having to disclose the private content of its users’ accounts in response to a criminal subpoena. Facebook claims it is protected under the 1986 law as an entity providing “computer processing services.”

For many years persons accused of crimes were likely convicted of crimes because relevant evidence that could have led to their exoneration was withheld from them. This was because social media giants like Facebook and Twitter would refuse to comply with lawful subpoenas issued by criminal defense law firms like. More often than not they would ignore subpoenas from criminal defense lawyers fighting hard for their clients. The courts would offer no help to those persons facing many years in prison if they were convicted of these crimes.

Recently it has come into question whether social media companies are actually protected due to their business models. Facebook’s protection under the SCA has been called into question because its users are authorized to access communications for purposes other than storage or computer processing. The California Supreme Court in the pointed out Facebook’s policy on mining, analyzing and sharing information.

Alexander Truluck focuses his practice as a criminal defense attorney in Clearwater, Palm Harbor, Largo, Dunedin and the Tampa Bay area.

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