Facebook Sues DEA Over Fake Profile Pages
Facebook has tried, almost to a fault, to protect the identities of its users — as long as they’re real. See, for example, the site’s recent conflict that ended with the network allowing some users who dress as members of the opposite gender to use their stage names online.
The drama was based around fake profiles, which are highly frowned upon in Zuckerberg’s environment.
Recently, Facebook poked the Drug Enforcement Agency because it wants “assurances” that the feds are no longer using fake profile pages to conduct investigations.
Facebook’s chief security officer Joe Sullivan wrote in a letter to agency administrator Michele Leonhart calling the DEA’s actions are a “knowing and serious breach” of Facebook policies:
“Facebook is a community where people come to share and interact using their authentic identities.
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