Social Networking Monitoring
EFF working with the Samuelson Law Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California Berkeley School of Law (Samuelson Clinic) filed suit on December 1 2009 against a half-dozen government agencies for refusing to disclose their policies for using social networking sites for investigations data-collection and surveillance.
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EFF recently received new documents as a result of our FOIA lawsuit on social network surveillance, filed with the help of UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Clinic, that reveal two ways the government has been tracking people online: surveillance of social networks to investigate citizenship petitions and the Department of...
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FBI Intelligence Information Report Handbook which mentions using “covert accounts” to access protected information.
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Secret Service Internet Use Policy. Includes recommendations on how to avoid leaving “electronic footprints” by using “stand-alone” computers with “anonymous accounts from an ISP” during surveillance.
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Presentation from DHS about social networking site monitoring leading up to the 2009 Inauguration.
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May 2008 memo by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services about using social networking sites to investigate fraud in citizenship petitions.
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