Subject: Facebook recs document
From: "Alexander Snyder-Mackler" <[email-masked]>
To: "Beau Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:59:50 -0500

Camille's team sent a few more this am.

Recommendations for Facebook:

Child Exploitation Investigations:

1. Federal law enforcement recommends having Facebook keep accounts "Open" that have been flagged. Closing accounts down, sometimes as they are being monitored by LE, obstructs investigations and the trail goes cold.

2. Federal law enforcement recommends that Facebook capture data related to "Groups". They need data collected and preserved on "members" of groups, who posted what to the group, and what other groups members belong to.

3. Facebook should retain records for a minimum of 12 months, preferably 24 months.

(This is crucial b/c If a CP case originates in Germany, but with US suspects, the feds don't even get the report until after the German case is concluded in court. By then, the data is gone in the US)

4. Facebook has a one to two week turnaround on admin subpoena requests. Can they do better?

5. They need to provide a good contact for immediate/emergency law enforcement contact, which as you know is time lost in finding a child.

6. A new feature that Facebook has added is using the IP address to identify where the user logs onto their account profile from.  It then posts the status on the wall of the user's profile.  The user can disable this feature, but we are not sure if Facebook keeps this information, if so, it would be very helpful to LE.

7. When we do have a legal return, they send data non related to suspect or victim due to the "friends" associated. This may provide good information down the road, but when trying to react to a case quickly, it would be better if the suspect and/or victim information is put in the report first.

8. Facebook should find a better way to monitor known sex offenders with pages.

9. Facebook should not shut down LE undercover pages, they should have a procedure to be able deconflict those pages thru a LE organization.

Bullying Recommendations:

1. Facebook should create a default setting for minor's pages that allow the user to "allow/accept" comments posted to their wall. This would prevent bullies from posting comments on someone's wall. Can a similar feature be created for status comments that go out about other's. For example: If someone posts a threat or a rumor to their status about someone else, the subject of the rumor would have to option to delete it.

 

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Alexander Snyder-Mackler
Biden for Attorney General
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