EFF Asks Facebook for Clearer Privacy Rules
“Facebook should go further in protecting users and the integrity of its services,” said the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Dave Maass, an investigative researcher, and Nadia Kayyali, an EFF activist, in a Friday blog post (http://bit.ly/1t8TczR). They thanked Facebook for scolding…
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the Drug Enforcement Administration “after learning that a narcotics agent had impersonated a user named Sondra Arquiett on the social network in order to communicate and gather intelligence on suspects.” Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan wrote a letter to DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart, saying the DEA’s action not only violated the site’s “terms of service, but threatened Facebook’s trust-based social ecosystem,” said EFF. “We’re asking Facebook to spell out, in no uncertain language, that the [privacy] terms that apply to regular users apply to government agencies as well, including law enforcement,” it said.