Require a confirmed court order before any amount of cooperation with authorities, including the acknowledgement that data might exist.
Assign a legal team to investigate all such orders, and proactively seek injunctions against those that overstep their authority.
Require that all government employees and contractors disclose their involvement (not publicly, obviously) and subject those individuals to enhanced scrutiny with regards to unwarranted data mining. Pursue aggressive legal action against the state for any individuals found in violation of this policy.
Of course, any of this would require Facebook or anyone else to treat its users as customers rather than products.
This would be amazing. What I'd also like to know is if LEOs have FB accounts with additional features, or if they have specialized UI where they can query user data. A whistleblower at Verizon a few years ago talked about a paid self-serve web interface they built for law enforcement to query location data because the volume of requests was too much to process manually.
Does the "secret interpretation" of the Patriot Act we keep hearing about include unfettered access to social networks?
Assign a legal team to investigate all such orders, and proactively seek injunctions against those that overstep their authority.
Require that all government employees and contractors disclose their involvement (not publicly, obviously) and subject those individuals to enhanced scrutiny with regards to unwarranted data mining. Pursue aggressive legal action against the state for any individuals found in violation of this policy.
Of course, any of this would require Facebook or anyone else to treat its users as customers rather than products.