Source : http://www.eff.org
The Electronic Frontier Foundation working with the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Samuelson Clinic), filed suit today against a half-dozen government agencies (including the CIA, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of Justice) for refusing to disclose their policies for using social networking sites for investigations, data-collection, and surveillance.
The nonprofit Internet rights watchdog group formally asked more than a dozen agencies or departments in early October to provide records about federal guidelines on the use of sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr for investigative or data gathering purposes, according to the lawsuit.
"Social-networking sites are becoming a part of the way we communicate every day and everyone thinks they are sharing information [on the sites] with just their friends," and "Governments are using the sites but not in the way citizens expect when they sign up" said Shane Witnov, a law student who worked on the case for the Samuelson Clinic.
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