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Government Admits Spying Via Facebook
Velcroman1 writes "Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg famously said that the age of privacy is over. And the government wants to ensure that, it seems. The Electronic Frontier Foundation's FOIA request has revealed government memos encouraging agents to befriend people on a variety of social networks, to take advantage of their readiness to share — and to spy on them. Thanks to this request, the government released a handful of documents, including a May 2008 memo detailing how social-networking sites are exploited by the Office of Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS), and one revealing how the DHS monitored social media during the Obama inauguration."
Honestly how many people should/would care who he is outside of his 700,000 or so constituents in Ohio? I for one am relieved that not everyone plays into the soap opera style dramatics that the mainstream media tries to turn Congress into. Sure, it's far from perfect, but the cast of characters they have crafted from the leadership is nothing short of Epic (in the theatric sense.)