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Facebook is monitoring you, but don't worry, you're boring

Original: Can Facebook Delete Your Account?

You're Boring Daily Highlight Featuring Amy Suo Wu: Can Facebook Delete Your Account?

• keywords

tracking, identity, social media, stories

• What is(are) the element(s) in the story that will be highlighted

Being tracked, not only in a hidden way, but in obvious ways. In 'FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back' and stories concerning FB the tracking of people's seem to be done in a very visible, hollywoodesc way - creating awareness that one is being controlled/watched.

• One sentence to sum up the mini project

Physical tracking and virtual tracking happening, but don't worry, you're boring

• Draft (pictures, drawings, texts, sounds, etc)

Collect stories of FB users who find they are being monitored.

Re-write condensed versions of these stories.

Create a FB-app that takes this stories and publishes them on their users wall, taking each user's friends as the characters of the stories

• Stories' Sources

AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-cia-following-twitter-facebook-081055316.html

Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device/all/1

FB deletes political groups pages on occasion of the Royal Wedding http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/facebook-takedowns:-burying-bad-news http://london.indymedia.org/articles/8923

FB considering breastfeeding and any other material and photos related to breast health, obscene

FB tracking browsing activity

fb deleting account of user who expressed criticism against FB not doing enough to prevent pedophiles from operate on the network

user fooled into providing personal data

http://recently.rainweb.net/hive/1114/

• Stories retold

FB deletes political groups pages on occasion of the Royal Wedding

AMY can home after 11pm after a hard day spent between her MA-program and her job at the local pub. She sat at her desk, turned on her computer, logged into facebook and headed to Goldsmiths Fights Back facebook page, to find last news on students' actions against UK's government cuts on education. AMY finds it surprising that this page does not show up, and even after a search it show no sign of existence. The page seemed to have simply vanished. HOW COME? JUST LIKE THAT? BUFF? After a quick search AMY finds out that Goldsmiths Fights Back along with many other UK's political's groups have been deleted from facebook, just prior to the Royal Wedding has taken place.

Source: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/facebook-takedowns:-burying-bad-news http://london.indymedia.org/articles/8923

FB trying to get data using a lie envolving a friend

A couple of days ago AMY received a facebook notice stating that her facebook friend JOHN mentioned she live in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Facebook wanted AMY to confirm if such was true. Finding it awkward that someone who she hasn't seen in 10 years hands outs such information to facebok AMY decided to contact JOHN, how replied that that hasn't be the case, having never mentioned AMY's living location to facebook.

Source: http://www.jzmcbride.com/blog/2011/10/is-facebook-following-me/

FB considers breastfeeding support group contain obscene pages AMY, a young mother struggling with her first maternity experience, joined the facebook breastfeeding support group The Leaky B@@b. The group offers a space on facebook where around 5,000 breastfeeding moms to ask questions and offer advice concerning breastfeeding. A week later AMY receives a message on facebook from on of her friends stating the The Leaky B@@b group did no longer exist. The group was deleted by facebook under the claim that it had violated their Terms of Service, insinuating that breastfeeding photos posted on the group’s page were obscene.

Source: http://www.parenting.com/blogs/show-and-tell/melanie-parentingcom/facebook-deletes-and-then-reinstates-breastfeeding-support-

FB deletes account of user who expressed criticism against FB not doing enough to prevent pedophiles from operating inside the network Facebook is taking heat from human-rights advocate Amy Suo Wu because she claims that it deleted her account after she was vocal about Facebook being a stomping ground for pedophiles and it not doing enough to stop it. Amy Suo Wu is an Australian investigative journalist who is known for busting pedophile rings. She says her account disappeared six months ago after she wrote posts against Facebook and it’s leniency on pedophiles.

Source: http://www.jzmcbride.com/blog/2011/10/can-facebook-delete-your-account/

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“Don’t worry, you’re boring“

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device/all/1

"A California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online. The post prompted wide speculation about whether the device was real, whether the young Arab-American was being targeted in a terrorism investigation and what the authorities would do.

It took just 48 hours to find out: The device was real, the student was being secretly tracked and the FBI wanted its expensive device back."

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Different Story's Perspectives

• Afifi ('victim')
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Khalend (Afifi's friend)
• Afifi's Father
• FBI
• Garage-mechanic who found the device
• Company that made the tracking device
• Kim Zetter (Wired article author)
• Former FBI agent (confirmed to Wired that it was a tracking device)
• Afifi's mother
• Afifi's Lawyer
• Afifi's Room-mate

From: Wired "Brian Alseth from the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington state contacted Afifi after seeing pictures of the tracking device posted online and told him the ACLU had been waiting for a case like this to challenge the ruling.

“This is the kind of thing we like to throw lawyers at,” Afifi said Alseth told him.

From: TPMMuckracker In addition to talking to the media about what happened with the agents, Affifi filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for his FBI file. Affifi received a package via overnight mail on Jan. 26 — the same day that FBI agents told his counsel that they wanted to further interrogate Affifi, according to the suit.

The FBI’s file described Affifi as a “bright hardworking student, trying to support his family…[who] would be great to work for the FBI,” according to the documents he obtained in his FOIA request.

"You caught them following you"

• Giving consent, while not understanding what this will imply in the future - I can say yes or no, therefore it seems like one is choosing, making an informed choice and not being invaded
• The theater of surveillance - the show, the fear climate