The Hanover police are Facebook pioneers. Meanwhile their site has more than 100,000 fans, who see notices posted by the police on their Facebook stream. But data protection experts have criticized the program, causing Lower Saxony’s state government to put a temporary stop to policing via Facebook. Part of the problem is that police data from Germany is ending up on servers located in the United States. Now the police have come up with a solution - instead of posting their bulletins directly on Facebook, they’re posting links that bring users to the official police website.