Sure, why not—they’ve been in your telephone and (snail) mail for decades already. The next step was inevitable: U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a tantalizing glimpse of issues related to privacy and crime-fighting. This kind of thing goes hand in hand with the government’s desire for companies to be forced to keep several years of records about every user: IP addresses, email, tweets, IMs, FB updates, … Continue reading There Is a Government in Your Social Networking