Feds on Your Friends List

There is no shortage of sad stories involving the loss of one's dignity, job, or significant other, thanks to some embarrassing picture, bit of information, or errant one-liner cluelessly tossed into the fast moving bitstream of some social media network. When we hear these stories, we cluck at such oversight, shake our heads in amazement, or whisper to ourselves some version of "there but for the grace of … go I."

But when we learn that revealing tidbits are being culled from social networking sites by someone wearing a badge and used as "evidence" in the course of a federal investigation, the discussion ratchets up to a different level altogether.

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