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In the midst of recent controversies over Facebook’s privacy settings, it is easy to forget how much personal information is available from other sources on the internet. But the government remembers. EFF recently received a number of documents from the CIA and the FBI highlighting the government's ability to scour not only social networks, but record each and every corner of the internet. These documents were released in the second of a series of government disclosures resulting from EFF’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in which EFF, with the help of UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Clinic, sought information on the procedures and guidelines employed by government agencies when conducting social network monitoring or investigations.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/government-monitors-much-more-social-networks