FACEBOOK MESSAGE: REPATRIATION SAGA

A 19-year old Sarah (not real name) wants to visit only her second cousin in the US, to spend four months in another country. At the passport control during transfers at the airport in Philadelphia, the teenager was arrested and can not enter the United States.
Smartphone and passport she has to give, her luggage was searched in and out. Fingerprints and photos were taken. The reason for her not able to enter the country was still unkowns untill four hourslater when the officer that controlled her finally comes back. In her hand she holds the phone of 19-year-olds. What follows are a lot of questions.
"Do you have news in your phone, where is that your cousin has offered you to take care of the neighbors' children, and that you told her that you have a valid driver's license and thus the children can go to school?"  

 

Immideately, the teenager knew the officer had read her facebook message. Because this was the information sent by her second cousin to her on her her facebook.

 

For the officer, the teenager had lied, she had tourist visa but according to this facebook information, she is actually going there to work.

 

She was placed in the next available flight back to Germany.
Both the parents of the teenager and the relatives in Cleveland have now taken legal action because of the incident in which private Facebook messages have been read, also raises data protection issues.