Posted on 03/17/2010 9:09:05 PM PDT by myknowledge
WASHINGTON (AP) - 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox10tv.com ...
I sort of figured Facebook was actually started by the NSA.
They would never try coming. Honest we won’t.
I would be disappointed if they weren’t doing it. If some idiot criminal is going to post incriminating evidence online, then it would be negligent for the law enforcement to pretend it did not happen.
I have a facebook friend who will be in big trouble. He has a profile picture of him with a fishing rod.
and that is why I would never use Twitter, Facebook or Myspace.
Too paranoid?
I’m not sure if this is correct, but a friend of mine said Facebook will not let you log in if they detect you are using a proxy. Now why would they care unless they are tracking your IP address?
Dang! and I just put up my whole Bass on Fishbook.
"The page you requested was not found."
Weird. When I clicked on it, I got my page.
This? If it doesn’t work, search my name.
http://www.facebook.com/?sk=nf#!/conniebrimmer?ref=profile
OMGosh. I hope the Feds are not monitoring Free Republic.
Your name is Connie Brimmer?
I’m sorry, but if you’re dumb enough to commit a crime, and then blab about it on Facebook, you deserve everything you get, and should consider yourself lucky that you didn’t get everything you deserved.
Yep
Thats preposterous ..... real militia members never use facebook. They meet at the hardware store. Usually over near garden tools.
I still can't get into your facebook site
And, if you are on FB and want to add me, let me know who you are in freepmail or in fb request to add.
You have to be registered at fb.
OK Connie!
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