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Break the law and your new ‘friend’ may be the FBI

Posted on March 16th, 2010 at 21:12 by John Sinteur in category: Privacy, Security -- Write a comment

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he Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.

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.

If you expected otherwise, you’ve been pretty naive.

  1. Knock, knock. “We’re the government, and we’re here to help you!”…

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