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U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a tantalizing glimpse of issues related to privacy and crime-fighting.

 

Think you know who's behind that "friend" request? Think again. Your new "friend" just might be the FBI.

 

The document, obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, makes clear that U.S. agents are already logging on surreptitiously to exchange messages with suspects, identify a target's friends or relatives and browse private information such as postings, personal photographs and video clips.

 

Among other purposes: Investigators can check suspects' alibis by comparing stories told to police with tweets sent at the same time about their whereabouts. Online photos from a suspicious spending spree - people posing with jewelry, guns or fancy cars - can link suspects or their friends to robberies or burglaries.

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So the Feds are on Facebook , is this an extension of the Patriot Act ?

 

 

That's my question. If so then I object to it even more strenuously than before.

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You can block anyone from adding you. You have to accept any friend request. So if you add everyone, even people you don't know, it's your fault for letting them into your profile and seeing everything you have put on there.

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Just as long as I do not get the annoying Farmville updates.

What about Mafia Wars? :D

You can block anyone from adding you. You have to accept any friend request. So if you add everyone, even people you don't know, it's your fault for letting them into your profile and seeing everything you have put on there.

You can also make a list where you can still add a person as your friend but block them from seeing your personal info.

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You can block anyone from adding you. You have to accept any friend request. So if you add everyone, even people you don't know, it's your fault for letting them into your profile and seeing everything you have put on there.
But, if you're an opponent of the Patriot Act, don't you find it as intrusive?
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But, if you're an opponent of the Patriot Act, don't you find it as intrusive?

 

These people are putting their information on the world wide web for everyone to see. If they don't want people to see it, don't put it up.

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But, if you're an opponent of the Patriot Act, don't you find it as intrusive?

 

What is intrusive about somebody accessing information that YOU posted for the ENTIRE INTERNET to see? Can't wait to hear this one.

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Perhaps I'm missing something, but are the Fed's gaining access to information that anyone else would not be privy to? If you make your photos or other information public, than I really don't see that this has anything to do with the patriot act. Now if Facebook is giving them access to private information than I see the point. I only read the quoted section of the article, but from that it sounded as if the Feds were not doing anything different than has been done for years with undercover cops, etc.

 

Bottom line, if you rob a bank and then post pictures of you with the money, than you deserve to be caught.

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Honestly if anyone has a problem with this they're either ignorant or just hate authority. If you're dumb enough to let someone access your info then that's your problem. I for one could care less who see's what I have on there. I'm not dumb enough to embarrass myself with putting personal, or incriminating info on facebook that I don't want people to see. Just silly.

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Honestly if anyone has a problem with this they're either ignorant or just hate authority. If you're dumb enough to let someone access your info then that's your problem. I for one could care less who see's what I have on there. I'm not dumb enough to embarrass myself with putting personal, or incriminating info on facebook that I don't want people to see. Just silly.

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Perhaps I'm missing something, but are the Fed's gaining access to information that anyone else would not be privy to? If you make your photos or other information public, than I really don't see that this has anything to do with the patriot act. Now if Facebook is giving them access to private information than I see the point. I only read the quoted section of the article, but from that it sounded as if the Feds were not doing anything different than has been done for years with undercover cops, etc.

 

Bottom line, if you rob a bank and then post pictures of you with the money, than you deserve to be caught.

 

Exactly, particularly the bolded. :thumb:

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Sorry but I'm not seeing any intrusion here. Facebook is voluntary and any information that you choose to put up (or not put up) is up to you. If you don't want it seen don't put it up.

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