Social Networking Sites Not Just for Friends - It's Also for the Feds

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,419705,00.html

Guess who may be checking you out on Facebook, Wikipedia and MySpace?

The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are poring over
non-verifiable profiles on the Web to help decide who should be allowed into
the country and who may pose a threat to national security.

Information is even being collected through Google searches, DHS and FBI
sources confirmed to FOXNews.com.

Sources say that immigration officials vetting applicants for citizenship or
asylum scan personal profiles, looking for telling pictures or information
to help confirm marriages, verify background details and see with whom
they're chatting <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,419705,00.html>
online.

Even U.S. citizens are having their Web profiles reviewed. People who buy
one-way airline tickets, for example, are automatically flagged for security
reasons, and authorities say a passenger's name may be crosschecked against
Facebook, YouTube or MySpace.

Remember those hunting pictures that you proudly posted online - the ones
that show you holding a gun? If Homeland Security doesn't like what it sees,
it could use them to ban you from stepping on American soil.

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