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Facebook Demands DEA Stop Using Fake Profile Pages For Investigations
Facebook has a message for the Drug Enforcement Administration: we don’t like what you’re doing on our website.
The social networking giant said in a letter Friday it wants assurances that the federal agency is no longer using fake profile pages to conduct investigations. The letter was in response to a New York woman's federal lawsuit that claims that a DEA agent created a fake Facebook profile using her name and photographs to lure criminals.
In the letter, Facebook's chief security officer Joe Sullivan told DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart that law enforcement agencies need to follow the same rules about being truthful on Facebook as civilian users, which include a ban on lying about who you are.
"Facebook has long made clear that law enforcement authorities are subject to these policies," Sullivan wrote. "We regard DEA's conduct to be a knowing and serious breach of Facebook's terms and policies."
Facebook wants the DEA to confirm that it has stopped using any other fake profile pages it may have created.
The Justice Department has opened a review of the case after New York resident Sondra Arquiett sued the DEA agent, Timothy Sinnigen, and the U.S. government for allegedly creating the Facebook page without her knowledge or permission.
By Fox News, Oct. 18, 2014, Foxnews.com
Facebook has a message for the Drug Enforcement Administration: we don’t like what you’re doing on our website.
The social networking giant said in a letter Friday it wants assurances that the federal agency is no longer using fake profile pages to conduct investigations. The letter was in response to a New York woman's federal lawsuit that claims that a DEA agent created a fake Facebook profile using her name and photographs to lure criminals.
In the letter, Facebook's chief security officer Joe Sullivan told DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart that law enforcement agencies need to follow the same rules about being truthful on Facebook as civilian users, which include a ban on lying about who you are.
"Facebook has long made clear that law enforcement authorities are subject to these policies," Sullivan wrote. "We regard DEA's conduct to be a knowing and serious breach of Facebook's terms and policies."
Facebook wants the DEA to confirm that it has stopped using any other fake profile pages it may have created.
The Justice Department has opened a review of the case after New York resident Sondra Arquiett sued the DEA agent, Timothy Sinnigen, and the U.S. government for allegedly creating the Facebook page without her knowledge or permission.
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