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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220406-011045-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/os6-no-one-knows/ On the Internet, No One Knows You’re a Cop - Police and Social Media Deception Fox Cahn, Albert Loshkajian, Nina eng 2022-04-05 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 privacy Right to Privacy surveillance Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 As long as police can continue to exploit the legal fiction of user “consent” to access our private communications, our privacy rights will remain just as fictional. While we’re hopeful that the courts will one-day strike this practice down as violating the Fourth Amendment, more urgent statutory protections are needed. The legislation needn’t be lengthy or complex, it’s not a nuanced question. To the contrary, what we need is a complete and categorical ban on the use of fake accounts by police, letting those who’ve been surveilled sue, and suppressing the evidence that’s obtained at trial.