Archive for October 14th, 2010
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Mark Zuckerberg the Facebook founder particularly said that “the era of privacy is over.” And the government wants to guarantee that, it seems.
An Electronics Frontier Foundation freedom of information request exposed a memo heartening agents to try to befriend people on an assortment of social networks in order to take lead of their readiness to share — and spy on them.
“Narcissistic tendencies in many people fuels a need to have a large group of ‘friends’ link to their pages and many of these people accept cyber-friends that they don’t even know. This provides an excellent vantage point for FDNS to observe the daily life of beneficiaries and petitioners who are suspected of fraudulent activities,” according to the memo obtained by Valleywag.
According to the website, the EFF wrote that “this memo suggests there’s nothing to prevent an exaggerated, harmless or even out-of-date off-hand comment in a status update from quickly becoming the subject of a full citizenship investigation.”
Electronics Frontier Foundation says the government is spying on other websites include Twitter, MySpace, Craigslist and Wikipedia.
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