The Real Privacy Scandal On Social Networks: The Feds Are Spying On Their ?Friends?

All the hoopla over the Wall Street Journal?s so-called Facebook ?privacy breach? article, it's subsequent and curiously-timed MySpace followup, and also the New York Times' take on the ability of Facebook advertisers to target ads for nursing schools to gay men is unwittingly creating cover for a social networking privacy issue that?s much bigger.� It might be surprising to some, but it turns out that U.S. federal agents have been urged to ?friend? people in order to spy on them. The feds operate such social sting operations aided by the fact that there are very few individuals that actually know every single person in their "friend" list on Facebook.� For instance, it is typical to connect to someone because one thinks they might have met them.� Or, a connection might take place because two people share common interests and want to view each other?s news posts going forward.� But that?s not how the government sees it. In a memo obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) discovered that the Feds see Facebook as a psychological crutch for the needy.

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