Norway’s ‘CIA’ Pushes Plan To Unleash “Facebook Police”

Kripos, Norway’s National Criminal Investigation Service, is reportedly examining the legal aspects of how police accounts could be given access to areas of Facebook that are not open to the public. It would mean police gaining access to closed groups and interacting with members as they search for evidence of criminal activity, the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv reported.
‘We have looked into the possibility of creating ‘uniformed accounts’. But we have not decided whether it is something we should do,’ communications officer Axel Wilhelm Due told Dagens Nringsliv, via the Local.
As The Telegraph reports, police in Norway and elsewhere have previously used fake Facebook profiles to investigate crimes including smuggling alcohol and tobacco.
Facebook has not given police profiles with enhanced access to private groups but they can apply for access to them in connection with criminal cases, Dagens Nringsliv reported.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on May 30, 2017.