The Department of Homeland Security in the U.S. routinely uses fake social media accounts to collect information about people, according to over 3,000 pages of document. The internal records include guidance for agency personnel and emails — but there is little or no evidence of adequate rules to protect Americans’ privacy rights.

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    1 year ago

    The tactic also violates Facebook’s user policy, which requires people to use their real names, as the platform has told law enforcement agencies on multiple occasions.

    What a meaningless and ridiculous thing to highlight. This article feels like a joke, honestly. Y’all ever heard of Snowden? Or the US PATRIOT Act?

    Shit, just look at the funding page. These people aren’t your friends.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brennan_Center_for_Justice

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    Well yea it’s a site full of weirdos trying to ruin the peaceful transition of power.

    Let me put it this way, you’re either on FB because you grift, you have no life, you’re a millennial parent who just posts family pics, you’re an idiot, you’re old asf, or you are involved with a ws group.

    That’s basically it and by the looks of it the other posters in here are part of the latter.