Companies like Apple, Google, and Snapchat complied with requests for data from police emails used by criminals, which used the obtained data to harass and extort sexual content from minors.The FBI could become a middle-man for data request verificationEmergency Data Requests made via stolen police credentials like email have led to tech companies sharing sensitive user data with the criminals. Since Emergency Data Requests are usually made in good faith, tech companies can sometimes respond without an official subpoena, though, those have been known to be forged too.Read more
