Ryan Tate writes:
Federal agents are infiltrating social networks via sneaky friend requests and monitoring them via a special command center, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Who cares? Well, prospective citizens, for one.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published a memo, below, encouraging agents to exploit the “narcissistic tendencies” of Facebook users and to “friend” prospective citizens on the social network, hoping targets wouldn’t realize they’d let a federal agent investigate their profiles for evidence of fraud, like a sham marriage.
Read more on Gawker.
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Free Cloakguard plugin for Facebook available from:
Download – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/194385/
Demo – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4qN3TBqx08