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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. Suspicious Words by alex4point0 · · Score: -1, Troll

    What constitutes suspicious to Flowers By Irene these days?

    "Lol I trolled j00!", "I Can Be PartyV&?", "Does Your House Have Stairs?", "I'mma Blow Up Your Farm!"

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  2. Re:Privacy? How? by santax · · Score: 1, Troll

    No. The FBI according to their own words has robots in place that search the internet for a combination of words they deem unwanted. Like FBI and Corrupt.

  3. Linux users are cock smoking faggots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Faggots love linux like they love a big thick dick in the ass and eating shit.

    Linux users are dirty birds.

  4. Re:Trolling, trolling by ciderVisor · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm tired of being bullied by the assholes in this place. I will at last be leaving this world.

    Become an hero.

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    Squirrel!