Friday, December 22, 2006

[USA] Police increasingly watching Internet / Herald Tribune, 18 Dec 2006

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KRISTEN KRIDEL
"Florida law enforcement agencies, backed by hundreds of thousands of dollars in state grants, now are patrolling the Internet in the same way officers have traditionally pounded the streets of their beats.Investigators have been seeking out online sexual predators for years. But experts say the number of officers searching for cyberspace crimes is rapidly rising as they turn social networking Web sites, such as Facebook.com and MySpace.com, into their personal beats."