May 2008 memo by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services about using social networking sites to investigate fraud in citizenship petitions.

Discuss the CIA’s so-called Open Source Center, established in 2005, which has been collecting information from publicly accessible Internet sources such as blogs, chat rooms and social networking sites, in addition to monitoring radio and television programs.

FBI Intelligence Information Report Handbook which mentions using “covert accounts” to access protected information.

2008 ODNI study on the potential of Internet searches in government security clearances

Engineers responsible for building Internet technologies object to COICA.

A letter of concern signed by a coalition of libraries, technology industry associations, and digital civil liberties groups.

Order requiring Plaintiffs to show cause why the case should not be dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction.

Data Retention Conference: “Towards the Evaluation of the Data Retention Directive”