U.S. law-enforcement agencies gather information in Facebook, Twitter, MySpace и LinkedIn social networking websites. Newsru.com reports that Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) got documents from two U.S. state organizations, disclosing how law enforcement agencies’ employees use social networking sites to gather information in investigations.

Thus, the Internet tools are used, for instance, to investigate taxpayers.

According to the source, the employees are warned to be careful to avoid any appearance that they are speaking on behalf of these organizations.

The documents indicate that Facebook often cooperates with enforcers especially if there is an emergency request, while Twitter refuses to provide data without legal process.

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