Imagine finding out you have a Facebook page that you didn’t actually create. It has your name, your private photos and all of your personal information — none of which you posted. That’s the discovery New York resident Sondra Prince made.
Prince, formerly Sondra Arquiett, alleges that after she was arrested on drug charges in 2010, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration used the photos on her confiscated cellphone to create Facebook profile in her name and without her consent. It was only when one of her friends asked her about the photos that she found out, BuzzFeed reported. Image via Sondra Prince/Facebook
Image via Facebook
DEA agent Timothy Sinnigen, the agent who set up the fake profile, allegedly made contact with at least one known fugitive while pretending to be Arquiett, according to Gizmodo. Arquiett’s fake profile, which is still active, shows photos of her sitting on the hood of a car in shorts and a tank top and holding two young children, whom BuzzFeed reported to be her son and niece. Image via Sondra Prince/ Facebook
Image via Facebook
In June 2013, Arquiett filed a formal complaint against Sinnigen on the grounds that her privacy was violated. However, the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of New York ruled the DEA did nothing to overstep its authority.
“Defendants admit that Plaintiff did not give express permission for the use of photographs contained on her phone on an undercover Facebook page, but state the Plaintiff implicitly consented by granting access to the information stored in her cell phone and by consenting to the use of that information to aid in an ongoing criminal investigations,” the court said.
Therefore, the court went on to state, “Plaintiff does not have a First Amendment Right to Privacy in the photographs.
Poster Comment:
So basically the government is sayint that they can be liars. What pieces of shit.
