{"id":1008,"date":"2010-06-17T12:17:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T10:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2010-06-16T12:25:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T10:25:40","slug":"fbi-spots-potential-danger-to-a-school-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"FBI spots potential danger to a school &#8211; on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 4px;\" title=\"St. Aelred's\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/48081000\/jpg\/_48081623_school_sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"119\" \/>As opposed to my previous post, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/merseyside\/10319053.stm\">BBC reports an instance<\/a> where the FBI has made use of public information to predict a possible threat to St Aelred&#8217;s Catholic Technology College in England.\u00a0 The information was on Facebook, and was available probably because the defendant hadn&#8217;t protected his postings, perhaps due to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2010\/05\/12\/business\/facebook-privacy.html\">FB&#8217;s confusing approach to privacy<\/a>.\u00a0 Imagine, however, that FB didn&#8217;t confuse anyone, and this information were protected.\u00a0 Would the FBI have been prevented from warning St. Aelreds?\u00a0 If if they couldn&#8217;t, would Facebook?\u00a0 And if Facebook didn&#8217;t would the FBI insist on new powers?\u00a0 Watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As opposed to my previous post, BBC reports an instance where the FBI has made use of public information to predict a possible threat to St Aelred&#8217;s Catholic Technology College in England.\u00a0 The information was on Facebook, and was available probably because the defendant hadn&#8217;t protected his postings, perhaps due to FB&#8217;s confusing approach to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1008\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FBI spots potential danger to a school &#8211; on Facebook&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,9],"tags":[222,290,347],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-politics","category-security","tag-facebook","tag-fbi","tag-threats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}