Feds Sued Over Info Collection On Web-Based Social Networks

An Internet watchdog group wants to know how the U.S. government uses the information it collects on web-based social networks like Facebook and MySpace.

 WASHINGTON, D.C. — An Internet watchdog group wants to know how the U.S. government uses the information it collects on web-based social networks like Facebook and MySpace.

Upon announcement of the Electronic Frontiers Foundation’s lawsuit seeking such information, EEF’s media advisor James Tucker noted that “millions of people” could be effected by the government’s secret policies.

The EFF’s requests for this information through the Freedom of Information Act, before this time, has fallen on deaf ears in Washington.

This latest suit demands that the government release its policies regarding information collection during investgations.

The Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at Berkeley helped file the suit for EEF against the Central Intelligence Agency, Departments of Justice, Defense and Homeland Security, the Treasury, and Director of National Intelligence.