How do you feel about FBI undercover operations on Facebook, LinkedIn and the like?

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I would of course expose him and his identity on in the entire site.
I will not suffer such insolent betrayal.

@tinyfaery – Ha.

I personally don’t care, but then again, I only friend people on FB that I actually know or have met in person.

People are putting their info out there freely. You have to assume people are going to look at it. They’re not doing anything online that anyone else couldn’t do

If you’re stupid enough to “Friend” someone you don’t know, you deserve whatever happens to you.

Oh no -that’s

Fine with me.

What are people doing putting up great detail about their lives on their profiles and then letting people they don’t actually know have access to them?
Privacy invasion my ass. If someone’s posting their criminal activity on FB, let the law at ‘em.

If they accept them as friends then I reckon it’s fair game.

The internet is a public domain. Social networking sites have settings you can activate to make your pages semi private. But, by utilizing these sites, you practically open-up yourself to the intrussion with your permission. Just check out TOU’s of websites you visit.

All my Facebook friends are people I actually know in real life, or close online acquaintances. I don’t make it a point to have 584930 friends like so many people do. So I wouldn’t accept some stranger I have no idea who is.
Still, if it works, go for it I guess.

If you are stupid enough to engage in illegal activities and then talk about them to virtual strangers-you need to be in jail. It isn’t just illegal that can cause a problem. Drunk and stupid can cost you a job and a lot of embarrassment.

I had not heard of this. If any of your setting are set for friends of friends, then they might be able to see stuff even if they are not your friend, so check your privacy settings. LOL. Plus, old friends from school you barely know could be FBI I guess, and you might friend them.

I’m not worried, I got nothing to hide.

This is no different than how they infiltrate other organizations where criminal activities are allegedly occurring.
They send in undercover agents with fake profiles. To gather information and friend the suspects.
This is really not invasive at all but merely an old law enforcement tactic being used in a novel way, necessitated by a whole new way of hurting people.

I thought that fucking Eliot Ness sounded suspicious.Prohibition that’s the answer.

I think it is a great idea. The closer we get to the police state, the closer we climb to a revolution.

Also, if you’re stupid enough to post about your illegal activities online, well, you’re stupid enough to get busted.

Makes you long for the old days of the internet where could tell who was who… Where men were men and women were men, and children were FBI agents.

Hello FBI. ;-)

There are FBI and CIA agents here on Fluther too.
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Hello @ChazMaz

Anyway they can catch the bastards is okay with me.

As a result of many actions of the Bush Administration, they are very few things that you can keep private even in what you used to thing of as the private domain.

The only truly private place is inside your own head and they have was to pry into there as well if they has any reason to construct a suitable pretext to do so.

I found one.

I’m fine with; even encourage it.

I am all for law enforcement doing their job to protect us from criminals.

I suppose how I can see how some can view it as an invasion of privacy,but at the same time, no one is making you sign up to face book, no one is telling you to post pictures of yourself smoking weed or other illegal shit, no one is telling you to friend random people you dont know, and the internet is public domain. IMO its same as walking into the center of time square and saying/doing whatever is on your FB.

That said, I dont have a facebook. Fuck social networking sites. No one needs to know wtf I am doing every waking moment of my life, and I sure as hell dont give a shit what theyre doing. Ill take my privacy, thanks.

When you look at what these perverts are doing on line I’m damn glad the feds are on line doing what they do. As long as there chasing perverts and the like I am hardly worried about any thing I write on line. some of it may be politically controversial but it’s hardly criminal.

I dislike it for one reason privacy . But it does have some good points and the best one is it will keep kids safe.

There is NO instance of “invasion of privacy” here. None. If you have your profile set to make your information public, that’s your call. If you accept the friend request of someone you don’t know, that’s your call. No one’s privacy is being invaded in any way, shape, or form. On the contrary, the subjects of the investigation have surrendered their “privacy” long before the Feds got involved.