Documents Reveal Widespread Use of Fake Social Media Accounts by DHS
www.brennancenter.org
A Brennan Center lawsuit unearthed details of the Department of Homeland Security’s use of social media for surveillance.

The Department of Homeland Security in the U.S. routinely uses fake social media accounts to collect information about people, according to over 3,000 pages of document. The internal records include guidance for agency personnel and emails — but there is little or no evidence of adequate rules to protect Americans’ privacy rights.

  • Itty53
    6•1 year ago

    The tactic also violates Facebook’s user policy, which requires people to use their real names, as the platform has told law enforcement agencies on multiple occasions.

    What a meaningless and ridiculous thing to highlight. This article feels like a joke, honestly. Y’all ever heard of Snowden? Or the US PATRIOT Act?

    Shit, just look at the funding page. These people aren’t your friends.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brennan_Center_for_Justice

    • qaz
      2•1 year ago

      It’s funny because they’re funded by Facebook

      • Itty53
        2•1 year ago

        Finding the similarities paints a picture. I see something in common among those companies and I alluded to it already: These are all major too-big-to-fail companies that want to be able to apply their rules (their ToS) as if it were actual law, even to the government itself. That’s how they operate and that’s how they talk. That’s what I was highlighting originally, their complaint that the government wouldn’t listen to their ToS as if it were law.

        The “Justice” in “Brennan Center for Justice” refers to the concept of justice for corporations, not people.