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We have been investigating how the government seeks information from social networking sites such as Twitter and how the sites respond to these requests in our ongoing social networking Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, filed with the help of UC Berkeley's Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. As part of our request to the Department of Justice and other federal agencies, we asked for copies of the guides the sites themselves send out to law enforcement explaining how agents can obtain information about a site's users and what kinds of information are available. The information we got back enabled us to make an unprecedented comparison of these critical documents, as most of the information was not available publicly before now.

There is as much misinformation as information, and social websites are the perfect supporting tools

The office is an area of evolving legal issues for digital rights. What postings on social media can get you fired? Who owns the email and what are your rights to privacy? These are only a few legal issues faced by employees.