DEA Agent Used Seized Photos to Make Phony Facebook Profile & Impersonate Woman

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jimmy olsen

October 07, 2014, 09:46:15 PM
Fuckin' insanity  :wacko:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/07/doj_used_photos_of_a_woman_it_arrested_to_forge_a_facebook_profile_of_her.html
QuoteDEA Agent Used Seized Photos to Make a Phony Facebook Profile and Impersonate a Woman

By Lily Hay Newman

Photo by KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images

Facebook's "Real Name" policy has gotten a little more lenient lately, but that doesn't mean you can impersonate someone else. A few years ago, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent created a Facebook profile in the name of a woman being tried for drug-related crimes so that he could attempt to catfish other criminals. The agent set up the account without the woman's knowledge, posted photos of her from her seized cellphone to legitimize the profile, and then communicated with other Facebook users. OK, this sounds super sketchy.

Buzzfeed dug up a court filing from August that discusses the fake Facebook account and its creation by DEA special agent Timothy Sinnigen. According to the filing, Sondra Prince, also known as Sondra Arquiett, was arrested in 2010 in New York for alleged participation in a drug ring. She was later sentenced to probation because she took responsibility, is a single mother, and seemed to be a minor participant in the ring. The fake Facebook account cropped up before her trial, though, and Sinnigen used photos from Arquiett's cellphone, which had been seized in her arrest, on the page. Some of the photos were risqué; in another, Arquiett posed with her young son and niece.
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The account first came to Arquiett's attention in 2010 when a friend asked her about photos she was "posting" on her Facebook. Arquiett was understandably suspicious because she didn't have a Facebook, so she looked into it and discovered the phony profile. BuzzFeed and others were able to access the fake profile until it was removed early Tuesday morning, after publication of the BuzzFeed story.

Now Arquiett is suing Sinnigen for violation of privacy and endangerment in Syracuse, New York, federal district court. In a response to her allegations, the U.S. attorney says:

    [The] defendants admit that Plaintiff did not give express permission for the creation of the 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.

It seems like a little bit of a stretch to say that in handing over her cellphone, Arquiett was tacitly consenting to have the government use her name and likeness on the Internet. The U.S. attorney denies her assertion that the profile was "publicly available," though given that news outlets could easily view it and link to it, this point is debatable.
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Razgovory

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October 07, 2014, 10:07:24 PM
I once created a fake OKcupid account using a photo of some random chick in Georgia just to see what kind of messages women typically get.
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Eddie Teach

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October 08, 2014, 09:17:12 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 07, 2014, 10:07:24 PM
I once created a fake OKcupid account using a photo of some random chick in Georgia just to see what kind of messages women typically get.

So what kind of messages do women typically get then?
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Razgovory

#3
October 08, 2014, 10:39:13 AM
Poorly written ones.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

garbon

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October 08, 2014, 10:44:36 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 08, 2014, 10:39:13 AM
Poorly written ones.

I think there is something about online dating that requires a person to revert to 3rd grade English.
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CountDeMoney

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October 08, 2014, 12:09:10 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 08, 2014, 10:44:36 AM
I think there is something about online dating that requires a person to revert to 3rd grade English.

Unfortunately, there's plenty of people out there that wish there were online dating sites for 3rd graders.

garbon

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October 08, 2014, 12:14:46 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 08, 2014, 12:09:10 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 08, 2014, 10:44:36 AM
I think there is something about online dating that requires a person to revert to 3rd grade English.

Unfortunately, there's plenty of people out there that wish there were online dating sites for 3rd graders.

Seems irrelevant.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

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CountDeMoney

#7
October 08, 2014, 12:16:34 PM
Don't care.  Only way to work 3rd graders in it.

Eddie Teach

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October 08, 2014, 12:18:38 PM Last Edit: October 08, 2014, 12:22:02 PM by Peter Wiggin
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 08, 2014, 12:09:10 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 08, 2014, 10:44:36 AM
I think there is something about online dating that requires a person to revert to 3rd grade English.

Unfortunately, there's plenty of people out there that wish there were online dating sites for 3rd graders.

Apparently there are.
https://www.playdateplanet.com/ 
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