NSA snooping: Facebook 'receives 1,500 data requests a month'

[struggle4progress]

Facebook received 9,000-10,000 requests for user data from US government entities in the second half of 2012, the company has revealed. The firm said the requests related to 18,000-19,000 user accounts and covered criminal and national security issues ... Facebook's Ted Ullyot said in a post on the company's blog that the requests pertained to a wide range of investigations, including missing children, federal fugitives, local petty crimes and terrorist threats ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-22916329


Facebook Statistics
... Facebook is the largest social network in the world with 500 million active users of whom 50% log in on a daily basis ...

[Tx4obama]

1. Not all the requests were from NSA. They were from local, state, and federal entities

Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests

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For the six months ending December 31, 2012, the total number of user-data requests Facebook received from any and all government entities in the U.S. (including local, state, and federal, and including criminal and national security-related requests) – was between 9,000 and 10,000. These requests run the gamut – from things like a local sheriff trying to find a missing child, to a federal marshal tracking a fugitive, to a police department investigating an assault, to a national security official investigating a terrorist threat. The total number of Facebook user accounts for which data was requested pursuant to the entirety of those 9-10 thousand requests was between 18,000 and 19,000 accounts.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023019972

http://newsroom.fb.com/News/636/Facebook-Releases-Data-Including-All-National-Security-Requests

[Skittles]

2. unbelievable how many people got sucked into that

[left on green only]

3. Talk about NSA = 1984?

The people who are members of FacePalm have already given up their personal information to big brother, and they have all done it voluntarily, and of their own accord. That has to be the ultimate swindle that shadows even the federal government in its' ability to invade people's lives. And in the process, they have also made some twit named Zuckerface incredibly wealthy for his ability to wear T-shirts. Is it wrong for me to assume that anyone who is a member of FacePalm, deserves to be?

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Unbelievable how much pressure one gets from family and "friends" to get sucked into that.

One family member got mad because I refused to to sign up just to see his what ever page.

Several "friends" STILL send me links to their latest 'so cute"
and one neighbor has made it her mission in life to get me to join her little Farmville group.
( goes to show how little she knows me).

Like wading in a shark pool.

[Skittles]

5. not on FB and have refused all requests

and yet I am STILL able to connect with family and friends!!! IT'S A MIRACLE I TELL YOU!!!!