Mad World NewsThe Astonishing Way the Government Can Legally Steal Your Identity: Creating a fake Facebook account to impersonate another person is forbidden, and such actions blatantly violate the social network’s terms and conditions.
But if you happen to be a government agency, these rules apparently do not apply to you.
The Astonishing Way the Government Can Legally Steal Your Identity
After Sondra Arquiett (who then went by the name Sondra Prince) was arrested on drug charges back in 2010, the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) set up a fake Facebook account in her name in order to lure her friends into giving away incriminating details about themselves. The pictures used to create the imposter account were taken from the photos on Arquiett’s phone, after it was confiscated by the agency. It was only after one of Arquiett’s friends asked her about the account that she found out her identity had been stolen.
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