FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @10:35AM from the bomb-president-motorcade-rutabaga dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The BBC reports that armed police were called to a UK school earlier today after being advised of a potential threat by the FBI. The school stated that the FBI 'raised the alarm after Internet scanning software picked up a suspicious combination of words,' strongly implying that they are carrying out routine, automated surveillance of social networking sites. While in this case it does appear that there may have been a genuine threat, the story nonetheless raises significant privacy concerns."

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I undestood this was from 4Chan, not Facebook by Mattniche · 2010-06-15 11:20 · Score: 5, Informative

According to this image I saw 5 days before that BBC story.

http://www.photo-pimp.com/dgnr8/lost/drf.jpg

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Re:Trolling, trolling by Kral_Blbec · 2010-06-15 12:33 · Score: 3, Informative

The FBI scanning the public traffic of an American website is in no way is comparable to monitoring you down in Aussie. Take off the tin foil.