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There are multiple ways that this can affect us, the most obvious being posting something incriminating online, but there are a few others as well. Police departments are checking possible candidate’s social media accounts in order screen for possible disqualifiers and to ensure they will not discredit the department (Roufa, 2017). Anything private will still require law enforcement going through the proper channels, usually requiring a warrant (Kelly, 2012). There has been multiple cases where someone has tried to argue that information found on social media is personal, but the courts have stood by the ruling that anything posted publicly does not have a legitimate expectation of privacy (Bianca, 2015). The Fourth District Court of Florida recently ruled that “…generally, the photographs posted on a social networking site are neither privileged nor protected by any right of privacy, regardless of any privacy settings that the user may have established” (Nucci v. Target Corp,