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Guest Post by Aspen Baker: Friend or Foe? UC Berkeley Investigates the Legal Landscape of Social Networking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What if the government created a third-party widget that asked people a range of personal questions that they then data-mined and used to find criminals or criminal behavior? Lawyers’ associations, such as state bars, attempt to address such behavior through Codes of Ethics, however government officials are not bound by these rules.