Can Police See Deleted Facebook Messages

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Answer #1: Posted by tanyaowen on December 2nd, 2013 9:43 AM

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Anything you put on the Internet is permanently there whether it appears to be. If the police or FBI were looking for something that "used to be there," they could retrieve it because they have the skils to do so.

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