Government Admits Spying Via Facebook 240
Velcroman1 writes "Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg famously said that the age of privacy is over. And the government wants to ensure that, it seems. The Electronic Frontier Foundation's FOIA request has revealed government memos encouraging agents to befriend people on a variety of social networks, to take advantage of their readiness to share — and to spy on them. Thanks to this request, the government released a handful of documents, including a May 2008 memo detailing how social-networking sites are exploited by the Office of Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS), and one revealing how the DHS monitored social media during the Obama inauguration."
Re:i don't understand the shock here (Score:1, Funny)
What I don't understand is how they fit the whole internet on my laptop. When I don't want the gubment to spy on me i just turn off my computer. Problem Solved!
YRO? Wrong. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In all fairness... (Score:3, Funny)
You have a Facebook message: (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Agent Provocateur (Score:5, Funny)
You seem to be trying to direct suspicion away from yourself....
Re:Agent Provocateur (Score:4, Funny)
You mean its not Timothy? He seems to be able to provoke a lot of reaction around here...
Re:Agent Provocateur (Score:2, Funny)
Assuming they do, it might be interesting to hold a Slashdot Poll on who we think it is.
I'd say John Katz the guy that wrote all those horrid articles about "the post 9/11 world". Probably he wanted to flush out the subversives so they could be HUNTED by the FBI/CIA/etc.
If you commented on one of his articles and got modded up, best avoid the Middle East unless you're really a terrorist. In which case you've got some information to give the local government's interrogators to make them stop.
Re:Agent Provocateur (Score:4, Funny)