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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Sep-2018 12:00:04 EDT Electronic Frontier Foundation

This summer, Memphis Police were caught spying on Black Lives Matter activists with a fake Facebook account.
Now FB confirms to EFF it deactivated six more fake accounts, has told MPD to cease the practice, and updated its law enforcement guidelines.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/facebook-warns-memphis-police-no-more-fake-bob-smith-accounts
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  Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts
  
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  Facebook has a problem: an infestation of undercover cops. Despite the social platform’s explicit rules that the use of fake profiles by anyone—police included—is a violation of terms of service, the issue proliferates. While the scope is difficult to measure, EFF has identified scores of agencies...

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