Government Surveillance Of Social Networks Challenged -- InformationWeek - 0 views
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Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law filed a lawsuit against six government agencies seeking to force the disclosure of policies governing the use of social networking sites for investigations, data-collection, and surveillance.
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The complaint cites various media reports about how government agencies have used social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, along with social video sites like YouTube, to investigate people and catch criminals.
