All you have to do, the email says, is help them catch your friends in the group. You have to report back every week, or you dad might lose his job. So you do.
FWIW, that is exactly what the FBI has been doing with the No Fly List. They put known innocents on the list mid-trip so that they can't go home. Then they offer to take them off the list if they will inform on their friends and relatives.
Want to bet that the FBI chose to target these innocent people because of social-graph data exactly like this article talks about?
The ACLU has been fighting and they just released an update on the situation yesterday.
FWIW, that is exactly what the FBI has been doing with the No Fly List. They put known innocents on the list mid-trip so that they can't go home. Then they offer to take them off the list if they will inform on their friends and relatives.
Want to bet that the FBI chose to target these innocent people because of social-graph data exactly like this article talks about?
The ACLU has been fighting and they just released an update on the situation yesterday.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/no-fly-list-wher...