Convicted Rioter Loses Appeal Over FB Location Data

Law & Crime reports:

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled that the disclosure of location information provided by Facebook to the FBI about users inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 did not violate Fourth Amendment privacy rights of a defendant who live-streamed his breach of the building.

Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell issued the ruling Wednesday in the case of Matthew Bledsoe, 38, who was convicted by a jury in July of a felony and four misdemeanors in connection with the attack at the U.S. Capitol.

Howell said that Bledsoe “voluntarily conveyed” his location information to Facebook, citing the platform’s Data Policy to which Bledsoe had agreed.

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