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Facebook Prevented DoJ From "Wiretapping" Messenger Voice Calls

posted by martyb on Saturday September 29 2018, @05:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the secret-decoder-ring dept.

takyon writes:

Facebook reportedly avoided DOJ wiretap of Messenger calls

As part of a case involving members of the MS-13 gang, the US Department of Justice has been pushing to get access to Facebook Messenger voice calls. It even attempted to hold Facebook in contempt of court last month when the company pushed back on a wiretap order. Now, Reuters reports that a US District Court judge ruled in favor of the social media giant, according to sources familiar with the matter, but because the proceedings are sealed, the reason why isn't yet clear.

Court filings have shown that the government was able to intercept phone calls and Messenger texts during its investigation, but three Messenger voice calls of interest were inaccessible.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Saturday September 29 2018, @09:58PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday September 29 2018, @09:58PM (#741923) Journal

    AP Fact Check: Trump Overlooks MS-13 Gang’s American Roots [voanews.com]

    The gang started in the 1980s in Los Angeles, initially made up largely of refugees and other immigrants from El Salvador, and “spread quickly across the country,” according to a Justice Department fact sheet. An FBI assessment from January 2008 said the gang was operating in at least 42 states and the District of Columbia, roughly the same number of states estimated in 2017. It has also spread outside the U.S.

    That FBI assessment said the group was made up largely of first-generation Americans and Salvadoran nationals. A decade later, the government has not said how many it thinks are citizens and immigrants. In notable raids on MS-13 in 2015 and 2016, most of the people caught were found to be U.S. citizens.

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