Monday, February 14, 2011

.@chamberpost ChamberLeaks: Pro-Chamber Conspiracy Illicitly Scraped Facebook data #p2


ThinkProgress has previously revealed how Hunton & Williams — a top law firm working for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — solicited three private security contractors to investigate political opponents of the Chamber. A key service that attracted the Chamber's lawyers to the corporate spies — Palantir Technologies, Berico Technologies, and HBGary Federal — was the ability of HBGary's CEO Aaron Barr to use computer programs to "scrape" personal information from the websites of Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media sites.

Leaked emails show that Berico, Palantir, and HBGary conspired to store information scraped from social media sites on Palantir's servers. On November 11, Barr sent Facebook data about the supporters and leaders of Change To Win, CodePink, US Chamber Watch and other organizations to Berico, who then passed the "scrapes" with "mugshots" along to Palantir:

rest at http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/14/chamberleaks-facebook-violation/

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