EFF working with the Samuelson Law Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California Berkeley School of Law (Samuelson Clinic) filed suit on December 1 2009 against a half-dozen government agencies for refusing to disclose their policies for using social networking sites for investigations data-collection and surveillance.
Updates
Legal Documents
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January 17, 2012
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January 17, 2012
FOIA Releases
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January 24, 2011
This manual discusses how the Secret Service can tap phone and electronic communications when one or more parties have consented to the interception.
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January 24, 2011
This manual discusses the procedures Secret Service agents should follow when they intercept phone or electronic communications without any party's consent to the interception.
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January 24, 2011
This manual discusses Secret Service's interpretation of the legal and administrative procedures that must be followed to obtain information under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Compare it with the Department of Justice Computer Crime and IP Section (CCIPS) Manual, available <a =href"http://www.cybercrime.gov/ssm....
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January 24, 2011
Manual that discusses how long Secret Service maintains various records.
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January 24, 2011
This manual discusses the procedures Secret Service agents should follow to access stored wire and electronic communication and transactional records under the Stored Communications Act.
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October 12, 2010
FBI emails reveal the FBI’s interest in the University of Arizona’s <a href="http://ai.arizona.edu/researc... Web Project</a>.
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October 12, 2010
FBI Intelligence Information Report Handbook which mentions using “covert accounts” to access protected information.
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October 12, 2010
Secret Service Internet Use Policy. Includes recommendations on how to avoid leaving “electronic footprints” by using “stand-alone” computers with “anonymous accounts from an ISP” during surveillance.
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October 12, 2010
Presentation from DHS about social networking site monitoring leading up to the 2009 Inauguration.
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October 12, 2010
May 2008 memo by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services about using social networking sites to investigate fraud in citizenship petitions.
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May 28, 2010
Discuss the CIA’s so-called Open Source Center, established in 2005, which has been collecting information from publicly accessible Internet sources such as blogs, chat rooms and social networking sites, in addition to monitoring radio and television programs.
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May 14, 2010
DEA Social Networking Presentation Discusses how to use social networking sites and social media in investigations.
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May 14, 2010
2008 ODNI study on the potential of Internet searches in government security clearances
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March 3, 2010
August 2009 presentation from the Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section
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January 11, 2010
A 2009 training course on internet tools and techniques to teach IRS employees how to gather information about taxpayers and research their online activity
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January 11, 2010
Examples of prohibited uses of government IT resources dated March 31, 2008
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January 11, 2010
IRS policy on inappropriate internet use dated November 30, 2007
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January 11, 2010
IRS policy on employee use of media dated November 24, 2009
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January 11, 2010
Undated form for IRS employees to request permission to access internet sites that they are otherwise not allowed to visit using government IT resources
Social Media Law Enforcement Guides
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January 20, 2011
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* The most recent version of Facebook's Law Enforcement Guidelines is available here: https://www.facebook.com/safety/groups/law/guidelines/
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January 20, 2011
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Legal Documents
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March 5, 2010
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February 8, 2010
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December 1, 2009
