{"id":26924,"date":"2019-04-22T14:42:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/30063\/Facebook-Urged-To-Tackle-Spread-Of-Fake-Profiles-Used-By-US-Police.html"},"modified":"2019-04-22T14:42:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T14:42:10","slug":"facebook-urged-to-tackle-spread-of-fake-profiles-used-by-us-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/facebook-urged-to-tackle-spread-of-fake-profiles-used-by-us-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Urged To Tackle Spread Of Fake Profiles Used By US Police"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has called on Facebook to address the proliferation of undercover law enforcement accounts on the social networking site following a Guardian report that revealed a secret network of accounts operated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice).<\/a><\/p>\n

EFF, a digital civil liberties not-for-profit, said law enforcement agencies are able to create fake accounts to spy on users, despite Facebook\u2019s policy which prohibits all users, including government agencies, from making them.<\/p>\n

\u201cFacebook\u2019s practice of taking down these individual accounts when they learn about them from the press (or from EFF) is insufficient to deter what we believe is a much larger iceberg beneath the surface,\u201d wrote EFF\u2019s senior investigative researcher, Dave Maass, in a blog<\/a>post<\/a>. \u201cWe often only discover the existence of law enforcement fake profiles months, if not years, after an investigation has concluded.\u201d<\/p>\n