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Police use social networks, fake profiles in investigations
Published 1/12/2009 at Latest from Computerworld
If you happen to accept every friend invitation you receive on Facebook or MySpace, you may want to start rethinking what types of information you show to your friends. Some of those people friending you may actually be law enforcement officials looking for incriminating evidence.
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