CIA on Facebook
CIA Gets in Your Face(book):
It seems that the CIA is recruiting on Facebook. I mean why wouldn’t they? Facebook is more for the college crowd and if you want to recruit like any company you go where the college kids are. No one is just born into the CIA. Personally I don’t have a problem with this. Do you know who does? Why the ACLU of course…
“If (the CIA) knows about Facebook, and they have a page on Facebook, it would be surprising if they weren’t using it in other ways,” says Nicole Ozer, civil liberties and technology policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.
Facebook’s privacy policy states that outside companies sponsoring groups don’t have access to personal information or profiles. However, it does say that information may be shared with “other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies,” in order to comply with the law.
Besides the fact that it isn’t technically a company, the CIA says it is only using Facebook as an advertisement for new recruits.
“The (CIA Facebook) page is only for information purposes; people cannot leave messages or engage in commentary,” says Neff. “There is no collection of names, bio information or resume collection from this site, nor do we engage members in any way.”
Neff’s claim is reinforced by Facebook’s director of marketing Melanie Deitch, who refers to the agency as an “advertiser.”
“The CIA has no direct access to any user’s profile,” Deitch says. “They adhere to the same rules as all of our advertisers. We do not publish or disseminate our users’ information to any advertiser.”
Ozer says that there’s no way we can be sure what the CIA is up to online.
“It seems if they would go to the trouble to infiltrate peace groups that they are also online looking at information.”
Paranoid much? I really doubt that the CIA is busy keeping up on the latest frat parties.
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