Lawsuit seeks info on federal surveillance of social networking sites

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the University of California, Berkeley's Samuelson Clinic have filed a lawsuit against six government agencies, seeking information on their use of social networking sites for data collection and surveillance. Shane Witnov, a law student at UC Berkeley School of Law's Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic said the lawsuit was prompted by the need for more transparency around the government's use of social networking sites for information gathering purposes.

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