US immigration police broke Facebook rules with fake profiles for college sting
by Amanda Holpuch from Technology | The Guardian on (#4CXQ3)
Revealed: Ice investigators set up social media profiles linked to a sham university for foreign students
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) violated Facebook policy by creating fake social media profiles tied to the University of Farmington, a sham university it created to identify people committing immigration fraud.
More than 600 students, nearly all Indian citizens, were caught up in the scheme, which the Guardian has found included fake Facebook profiles created by the nation's second largest federal investigative agency, Ice's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) division.
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