Not everyone is a James Bond or Michael Westin. At least according to a new Department of Homeland Security document entitled “Social Networking Sites and Their Important to FDNS” (below). The message, written by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, shows how the government can leverage social media to expose frauds.
“Narcissistic tendencies in many people fuels a need to have a large group of 'friends' link to their pages and many of these people accept cyber-friends that they don’t even know,” writes the Department of Homeland Security. “This social networking gives FDNS an opportunity to reveal fraud by browsing these sites to see if petitioners and beneficiaries are in a valid relationship or are attempting to deceive (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) about their relationship.”
Officials are encouraged to “accumulated a large list of friends effectively becoming part of the social network.” Large list of friends? The government better brush up on its popularity skills.
Full story at Ars Technica.
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