SMH journo Ben Grubb arrested after reporting security conference session on Facebook privacy flaws
Queensland Police have admitted they did arrest SMH journalist Ben Grubb after he wrote a news story about a Facebook vulnerabilities while covering a conference on IT security.
Grubb – deputy technology editor on smh.com.au – revealed on Twitter that he had been arrested and later released although the police force had kept his iPad.
Queensland Police in turn took to Twitter to deny he had been arrested before later sending another tweet conceding: “Our bad @bengrubb was arrested for questioning briefly Our tweet last night was based on information provided at the time Apologies.”
The story posted by Grubb focused on a controversial demonstration by a security expert of Facebook privacy vulnerabilities. The expert accessed photographs of another security consultant’s wife to demonstrate the hole at the AusCERT security conference on the Gold Coast.
Latest news from @QPSMedia (per media conference 10am) is that he WAS arrested under arrest-to-question powers, though the interview started without an arrest.
His iPad was also seized as possible evidence of a crime.
He wasn’t planking was he?
The REAL crime is that hair-do!
Good to know we’re living in some of quasi police state.
Tim/Robin What Am I missing here ?
As it turns out he was arrested for “receiving a photograph obtained from a Facebook account without the user’s permission”, which the QLD Police have equated with “receiving a stolen TV”.
Oh dear.
http://www.theage.com.au/techn.....1esad.html
Watch out, if you read New Idea and look at a paparazzi photo taken without the viewers permission, don’t travel to Queensland or you could be arrested.
Seriously, Queensland Police have nothing better to do than arrest a journo for this?!
Meanwhile in Queensland…
The fact that they responded with “Our bad” should be a major concern to whoever is driving the bus in the so-called “Smart State”.
I dont get this? Why did they arrest him?
@Patrick – +1. “Oops our bad we arrested him but we didn’t know at the time”. That person needs to go.
QLD police officially released “Our bad…” BAHAHAHAHAHA.. please find a new social media/comms advisor.. pronto.
Bah, it was worse than thought – the real transcript has been released.
http://finzen.tumblr.com/
So…all you who dislike the pigs, but really – what if your photos for your friends *ONLY* on FB were showed to people you didnt know without you known and had your kids in them. I wouldnt want others seein my life.