Facebook Can Only Help You Get Arrested

If you committed a crime, and the cops want to look through your Facebook page, it’s now legal for them to do so if they can get one of your friends to show them it. From Gigaom.com:

In an order issued on Friday, US District Judge William Pauley III ruled that accused gangster Melvin Colon can’t rely on the Fourth Amendment to suppress Facebook evidence that led to his indictment. Colon had argued that federal investigators violated his privacy by tapping into his profile through an informant who was one of this Facebook friends.

If you’re running a criminal orginization, or just participate in a life of crime on your own, make sure you can trust the people you’re friends with on Facebook. Or else your ass is going to get snitched on.

Read more at gizmodo.com.