Feds 'Friending' People On Facebook To Spy

American Voices • Science & Technology • ISSUE 46•42 • Oct 19, 2010

Federal documents suggest both the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Department of Homeland Security have encouraged agents to "friend" suspects on Facebook in order to check for evidence of misdeeds. What do you think?

“That would probably explain all those videos in my feed of Keyboard Cat playing off deportees." ”
Keith Renn –
Dado Operator
“Thanks for the heads up. I'd better get home and unfriend Janet Napolitano." ”
Emma Brand –
Kitchen Porter
“So, these agents. How good are they at tending virtual crops?"”
David Convex –
Unemployed

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