EFF Sues Feds for Info on Social-Network Surveillance

[H]ard|OCP
December 2, 2009

[efoods]The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the DoD, DoJ and the CIA for refusing to release information about the methods used to spy on social networks. Whoa, go get em’ EFF, you have to have a set of brass balls to file suit against the CIA.

The nonprofit Internet rights watchdog group formally asked more than a dozen agencies or departments in early October to provide records about federal guidelines on the use of sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr for investigative or data gathering purposes, according to the lawsuit.

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