Instagram is one of the most popular applications for smartphones and some people want to take advantage of this in getting to some of their purposes. Personal or not, these can be touched by simply giving a subscribe request. It is the case of Police from New Jersey which wants to use Instagram accounts to investigate different people and to use after some of their activities from this social media network against them if necessary.

FBI use the method first

This alternative is considered to be 100 percent legal by a district court judge from New Jersey, William Martini. So, if you get on different kind of mess in you shouldn’t have been and the police track you down on Instagram they can come after you without any warrant. Still, we have to mention how this situation came up as a solution. Well, all started back in 2013, when the Federal Bureau of Investigations, or which is better known as FBI, busted Daniel Gatson, the leader of a jewelry theft after among his Instagram friends were some undercover cops trying to secure evidence against him and apparently they did. 

Fake accounts are not illegal

Gatson posted at that time some of his loot on Instagram, thinking that its privacy accounts from its count won’t permit strangers to view any details about its act. But the police made some fake accounts and asked for his friend request. From the moment in which he accepted them unforced by anybody, he gave free access to all information so the Court decided wasn’t nothing illegal for the authorities to go and search his house for more evidence related to those posted on Instagram and thanks to which he was busted in the end. 

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