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FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. I undestood this was from 4Chan, not Facebook by Mattniche · · Score: 5, Informative

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

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

    Odd.